BIB_ID
116328
Accession number
MA 307A
Creator
Tonson, Jacob, 1656-1736.
Display Date
undated [after 1731].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (7 p.) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
A later penciled notation dates the letter to February 1731; however, a 20th century note accompanying the letter suggests that it was written after 1732.
Provenance
By descent with the manuscript of Paradise Lost (MA 307) to his son, also Jacob Tonson (1714-1767); by descent to his brother Richard Tonson; by descent William Baker and in the Baker family until Henry Clinton Baker of Bayfordsbury consigned the manuscript to Sotheby's, London, 25 January 1904 [the manuscript did not make the reserve and was not sold here]; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the manuscript of Paradise Lost, 1904.
Summary
Concerning John Milton and the manuscript of Paradise Lost (MA 307); its printing and provenance; and mentioning Barbazon Aylmer, from whom he purchased half the rights to Paradise Lost.
Catalog link
Department