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Jarson's library was [[auction::auctioned]] in [[location of auction::London]], beginning [[date of auction::25 July 1700]].  No catalogue survives; an advertisement for the sale announces ‘a curious collection of [[subject::history, English|English history]], [[subject::theology|divinity]], etc. with a choice parcel of [[subject::literature|plays]], by [[author::John Dryden|Dryden]], [[author::Nathaniel Lee|Lee]], [[subject::Thomas Otway|Otway]], &c. in 28 vol.  With several hundreds of valuable books, most of which are gilt on the back’.
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Jarson's library was [[auction::auctioned]] in [[location of auction::London]], beginning [[date of auction::25 July 1700]].  No catalogue survives; an advertisement for the sale announces ‘a curious collection of English [[subject::history]], [[subject::theology|divinity]], etc. with a choice parcel of [[subject::literature|plays]], by [[author::John Dryden|Dryden]], [[author::Nathaniel Lee|Lee]], [[author::Thomas Otway|Otway]], &c. in 28 vol.  With several hundreds of valuable books, most of which are gilt on the back’.
  
 
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Brian JARSON d.ca.1700?

Biographical Note

An untraced individual.

Books

Jarson's library was auctioned in London, beginning 25 July 1700. No catalogue survives; an advertisement for the sale announces ‘a curious collection of English history, divinity, etc. with a choice parcel of plays, by Dryden, Lee, Otway, &c. in 28 vol. With several hundreds of valuable books, most of which are gilt on the back’.

Sources

  • Alston, R. C. Inventory of sale catalogues 1676-1800. St Philip, 2010.