Letters and Journals, edited by his wife.

£200 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A selection of Jevons’s correspondence, selected and edited by his wife Harriet. ‘My object has been to give an account of his life in his own words, as much as possible’, with ‘as complete a list as I could form of my husband’s writings, with the exception of reviews of books which he occasionally wrote for Nature and other papers’ as an appendix. Provenance: bookplate ‘William Summers’ and ‘Presented to Toynbee Hall in memory of Harry Roberts’ to the front pastedown.

• Year: 1886

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