A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Simmons (Samuel)

by Henry Robert Plomer

SIMMONS (SAMUEL), printer in London; Next door to the Golden lion in Aldersgate, 1666-76. Probably son or nephew of Mathew Simmons, q.v. Printer of John Milton's Paradise Lost, 1667, the copyright of which Milton sold him for £5 and a contingent £15 more, of which £13 was paid. [Masson, Life of Milton', Vol. vi. 509 et seq.]