"I respect Millar, sir," said Dr Johnson in 1755, "he has raised the price of literature."
He paid Thomson £105 for The Seasons, and Fielding a total sum of £700 for Tom Jones and £1000 for Amelia.
[3] Millar was one of the syndicate of booksellers who financed Johnson's Dictionary in 1755, and on him the work of seeing that book through the press mainly fell.
[citation needed] He also published the histories of Robertson and Hume, as well as John Jones's Free and Candid Disquisitions.
[5] Millar died at his villa at Kew Green, near London, on 8 June 1768.