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Contract signed, 1749 March 25.

BIB_ID
104156
Accession number
MA 789.1
Creator
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
Display Date
1749 March 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 30.9 x 20.5 cm
Notes
With Fielding's signature and his seal.
With three blind embossed revenue stamps at the top of the sheet.
Witnessed by a "Jos. Brogden."
See MA 789.2 for a related document.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Bernard Quaritch, a London bookseller, in 1911; from the Huth Collection.
Summary
A contract between Henry Fielding and the bookseller Andrew Millar, granting Millar the "Title Right and Property in & to a certain Book printed in Six Volumes, known & called by the Name & Title of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" in return for £600.