BIB_ID
407045
Accession number
MA 789.2
Creator
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
Display Date
1748 June 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 8.3 x 19.8 cm
Notes
See MA 789.1 for a related document.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Bernard Quaritch, a London bookseller, in 1911; from the Huth Collection.
Summary
Acknowledging receipt of £600 from Andrew Millar, a bookseller, for the "Sole Copy Right of a Book called the History of a Foundling in Eighteen Books" (referring to the novel The History of Tom Jones); with an additional note: "The said book to contain Six Volumes in Duodecimo."
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