Agreement for the sale of a copyright, place not specified, 1775 January 14 : autograph manuscript signed.

Record ID: 
159395
Accession number: 
MA 22965
Author: 
Francklin, Thomas, 1721-1784.
Description: 
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.9 x 18.5 cm
Notes: 

Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791), I, 176; PML 9812-9815.
Endorsed.

Summary: 

An agreement between Thomas Francklin and Thomas Cadell for the sale of the Copyright of his tragedy "Matilda, or the Rival Brothers" for 130 guineas for the first edition and 20 for the second.