Deel 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

It is agreed that the work shall be printed in two volumes in quarto on royal paper, with the prints used in the Spanish edition printed by A. B is to procure the copy of the translation at his own expense and A are to furnish the plates for this and any future quarto editions, the cost of print and paper being divided equally between them. If B is obliged to furnish Jervas with fifty sets of books he is to pay A £25 as well as the cost of the print and paper for them. The net profits in this and any future editions printed by A and B shall be equally divided, and if they print the book in any other size the costs of engraving the plates shall be equally borne and A shall allow Mr (John) Vanderbank’s designs to be used. The property of a moiety of the translation shall be vested by B in A, but the property of the original quarto plates, after being used, shall remain in A.