Documents relating to copyrights of Jacob Tonson and others

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f. 1r Receipt from John Rowe to Thomas Worrall Part 15 Mar. 1730
ff. 6–7 Assignment from John Oldmixon to Jacob Tonson II of the copyright of The Ladies Library, ‘written by a Lady’ (3 vols., 12mo) Part 7 Sept. 1714
ff. 28–9 Articles of agreement (apparently a draft) between Timothy Goodwin, John Walthoe senior, John Nicholson, Benjamin Tooke, Jacob Tonson I, John Walthoe junior, and John Darby Part 20 July 1716
f. 30r Receipts from Giles Jacob to Bernard Lintot Part 1719–1720
f. 1v Receipt from John Walthoe to Jacob Tonson II Part 28 Aug. 1714
f. 1v Receipt from Edward Young to Thomas Worrall Part 7 Dec. 1727
f. 5 Memoranda regarding the division of the profits, etc., of Humphrey Prideaux’s Connection, signed by Robert Knaplock and Jacob Tonson I Part 20 Aug. 1718–21 Feb. 1719
f. 9 (i) Articles of agreement between (A) Hannah Knaplock, Jacob Tonson III, and Richard Tonson, and (B) Samuel Shuckford, 22 Nov. 1739, bearing (ii) an assignment from Han-nah Knaplock to the Tonsons, 18 July 1740, and (iii) a receipt from Shuckford, 2 June 1743 Part 22 Nov. 1739–2 June 1743
f. 11 Assignment from (A) Dorman Newman junior to (B) Jacob Tonson I and (C) Jacob Tonson II of the rights in various books, 22 Apr. 1713; endorsed with a receipt from Newman of the same date Part 22 Apr. 1713
f. 13 Receipt from Temple Stanyan to Jacob Tonson I Part 15 July 1714
f. 15 Agreement between (A) John Heylyn and (B) Somerset Draper, on behalf of (C) Jacob and Richard Tonson and B himself Part 14 Nov. 1748
f. 17 Memorandums of agreement between (A) Jacob Tonson III and Richard Tonson and (B) Robert Dodsley, regarding Charles Jervas’s translation of Don Quixote Part 1 May 1740
f. 18 Assignment from Thomas Worrall to Henry Lintot of copyrights in various books, and copies of books Part 30 June 1738
ff. 21–5 Copy of an agreement between (A) John Dryden and (B) Jacob Tonson for Dryden’s translation of Virgil, 15 June 1694 Part 18th c.
f. 34r Note from Andrew Millar to Jacob Tonson Part 15 Apr. 1760
f. 38 Account of the costs of printing Parnell’s Poems Part 18th c.
f. 1r Draft of a deed of bargain and sale from D. M. (probably Daniel Midwinter), citizen and stationer of London, to Jacob Tonson II Part 18th c.
f. 2 Letter of attorney from (A) Humphrey Prideaux to (B) Edmund Prideaux (his son) Part 2 Apr. 1715
f. 3r Receipt from John Philips to Jacob Tonson I Part 24 Jan. 1708
f. 10 Articles of agreement between (A) Jacob Tonson & Co. and (B) Robert Dodsley, regarding William Duncan’s translation of Caesar’s Commentaries and his ‘Discourse on the Roman Art of War’ Part 30 Dec. 1752
f. 14 Agreement between (A) Samuel Shuckford and (B) Jacob Tonson & Co., 22 Dec. 1752; endorsed with a receipt from (A) to (B), 1 Nov. 1753 Part 22 Dec. 1752
f. 19 (i) Assignment from (A) Edmund Prideaux to (B) Robert Knaplock and Jacob Tonson junior of the copyrights in various books, 16 Apr. 1715; endorsed with (ii)–(iii) receipts from (A) to (B), 12 Dec. 1715 and 25 Feb. 1718, (iv) a certificate that (i)–(iii) were shown to (A) at his examination in the case of Robert Knaplock et al. v. Edmund Curll, 5 Apr. 1722, and (v) a similar certificate relating to Thomas Glenister, c. 1722 Part 1715–22
f. 20 Assignment from (A) Charles Bathurst to (B) Jacob and Richard Tonson of copyrights in two books Part 10 Feb. 1741
ff. 26–7 Copy of an agreement between (A) John Milton and (B) Samuel Simmons for Milton’s Paradise Lost, 27 Apr. 1667; Part 18th c.
f. 31 Account of the costs of printing a new edition of William Cowper’s Myotomia Reformata in folio Part 17 Jan. 1724
f. 33r Promissory note from (A) Jacob Tonson II to (B) Temple Stanyan Part 13 Apr. 1715
f. 35 Assignment from Temple Stanyan to Jacob Tonson II of the copyright in the first volume of Stanyan’s Grecian History (1707) Part 29 May 1714
f. 36 Assignment from (A) Giles Jacob to (B) Bernard Linton of the copyrights of several books by Jacob Part 29 Apr. 1719
inside back cover Leaf from the Cornhill Magazine, containing part of an article by Henry H. Wood entitled ‘Jottings from the Note-Book of an Undeveloped Collector’ Part Oct. 1867
f. 1r Receipt from Theophilus Rowe to Thomas Worrall Part 21 Mar. 1729