Book Collector
Jones is remembered more as a book-collector than as a journalist. Over his lifetime he amassed four significant book collections. His first collection of about 600 first editions of modern authors was started with the purchase of a first edition of Robert Browning's Inn Album. It has been described as one of the early first-edition collections, and was eventually sold.
His second collection of about 2,000 volumes of early English poetry and drama was notable in that it sold at auction in New York in 1918-19 for about $400,000. (The New York Times claimed this number was $391,854.)
His third collection was of Elizabethan items. It was sold in 1923 for $137,865.
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