Episode 2 of 3
Sale of Publication Rights
- When
- 27 April 1667
- Where
- London
Milton sold the rights to Paradise Lost to Simmons for £5 on 27 April 1667, with a bonus clause for sold-out print runs.
On 27 April 1667, John Milton sold the publication rights for Paradise Lost to Samuel Simmons. The contract specified an initial payment of £5, with an additional £5 to be paid if the print run of 1,300 to 1,500 copies sold out completely.
Sources
- John Milton Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-22
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.