1-272-881 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Agreement between John Millton and Samuel Symons, 27th April 1667. Agreement between Millton and his publisher Samuel Symons for the sale to the latter of the copyright of 'a poem entitled Paradise Lost', the poet to recieve £5 in hand, with a further payment of £5 on the completion of the sale of the first three editions, consisting severally of not more than 1,500 copies and to be accounted as at an end when 1,300 copies have been sold. Milton at this time was totally blind and the signature is evidently not in his own hand, but was written for him and certified by the impress of his finger and by his seal. From the fifth series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I-V, (London, 1899).