Item 12.25 - Notebook kept by John Wordsworth: 'Memoranda de libris emendis, emptis, consulendis &c'

1 vol., c 182 x 125 x 17 mm; paginated 7-[225], with no pp. 11-15, 335-337, 177-179. Many blank pages.

Title written in pen on both front and back cover as well as on label. List of contents on p. 7: 'Books missing'; 'To be completed'; 'To be bought'; 'Borrowed or ordered from Murray [crossed through]; 'Lent. - Sums due to me, or to be paid by me for books'; 'Duplicates'; 'Sold'; 'Sums spent on buying, or binding of books; 'Mem. for the future not to spend more than 30£ a year upon the purchase and binding of books. This will be quite sufficient to procure all that I really want'; 'Mark with an asterisk books completed, ordered, bought and returned'; 'List and prices of books ordered from Murray and to be paid for'; 'List of books lent to me by Murray and returned or to be returned'; 'List of modern books which I have not got, and ought to buy for edition of Aeschylus'.