Letters and Journals, edited by his wife.

JEVONS (William Stanley).

Letters and Journals, edited by his wife.

First edition. 8vo. xi, [1], 473, [1], [2, publisher’s advertisements] pp., with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Jevons. Original brick red pebble grain cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, boards panelled in blind (extremities rubbed and bumped, spine slightly darkened, otherwise a good copy). London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd, 1886.

£200.00

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.

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Letters and Journals, edited by his wife.

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