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(i) Agrees to give Philips forty guineas for his poem Cyder, together with a certain number of copies of the book, and agrees terms for subsequent editions.

(ii) Acknowledges the receipt of ten guineas ‘in full of this note and all demands’.

Endorsed ‘Mr Tonson’s Promissory Note’.

Acknowledges the receipt of forty guineas for the copyright of a poem (by Philips) entitled Cyder, in two books. A memorandum by Tonson dated the same day records that ‘Mr Phillips is to have ten Guineas more upon a Second Edition’.

(Oxford?)—Suggests examples of books before 1750 containing illustrations, for the bibliography.

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Bibliography slip 32

Illustrations before 1750:

Portraits of course, e.g. in:
Drummond’s Works Paris {1} 1709
Pope’s Works 1717
etc. etc.

Fancy Pictures. Rape of the Lock 1714.
Thomson 1730—the four Seasons
Young Night Thoughts 1742—one plate
Pope’s Works Vol. II 1735—tailpieces etc. by Kent
Gay’s Poems 1720
[Gay's] {2} Shepherd’s Week 
Philip’s Cyder
[The preceding three lines are braced on the right to:] all rustic subjects | Gay’s Fables!
Rowe’s Quean {1} I think has an allegorical frontispiece.

This is from memory—I think you must modify.

24:12:26 RWC

RBMcK

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{1} Reading uncertain.

{2} Represented by a ditto mark in the original.