GB 891 WJ-WJ/4
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1831
Part of Papers of Sir William Jones and Lady Anna Maria (Shipley) Jones
This consists of a lined exercise book with cardboard cover, into which have been stuck the pages from "Catalogue of the Library of the Late Sir William Jones... With the Books Added Subsequently to his Death by his Widow, Lady Jones" They were sold by auction by Mr Evans at 93, Pall Mall on Thursday 19th May, 1831"
Alongside each page of the sale catalogue some one has recorded in the exercise book, the price attained for each book and a name, presumably of the purchaser. £528, 17shillings were raised in the sale.
Jones Sir William 1746-1794