THE COLLECTION OF A GEORGIAN WOMAN READER
In five volumes.
London: Printed at the Minerva Press for A.K. Newman and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1815.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Inscribed “Eliza Giffard Nerquis” [typographic mistake in record states ‘Nervis’] on front paste-downs. Inscribed “Eliza Giffard” on title pages of volumes 3 and 5. Retains original paper publishers’ bindings. Publisher’s advertisements in volume 2, page [230] and volume 3, page [252].
In three volumes.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, 1818.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Inscribed “Eliza Giffard” on front paste-downs of volume 1 and 2, and “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire” on front paste-down of volume 3 and title pages of all volumes. Retains original paper publishers’ bindings. Advertisements after page 266 in volume 1, and page [184] in volume 3.
Note in record that source of acquisition was 7 Gables Bookshop. .
The 6th edition, with large additions, left by the author in manuscript, and other improvements. The whole revised and carefully corrected by the editor, Tho. Mortimer.
In two volumes.
London: Printed for D. Browne, A. Millar, R. Griffiths, and S. Hooper…, 1761.
University of Texas, Austin. Harry Ransome Center.
Unidentified armorial bookplates; vols. inscribed: Eliza Giffard Narquis Flintshire, 1807″. (Note: Narquis likely a typographic error from bibliographic record.)
New edition.
London: Longman and Broderip, [approximately 1790].
From the Cobbe Collection at Hatchlands Park. Courtesy of Alec Cobbe.
Inscribed ‘Eliza Giffard, Nerquis’. Bound oblong folio of printed and manuscript music, without markings or title on boards or spine. Endpapers watermarked ‘1821’. Only ‘Rosina’ inscribed directly with name. Manuscript contents on front endpaper in Giffard’s hand, listing contents of volume, as below:
[Storm, op. 4] Sonata: The storm; for the piano forte only / compos’d by J.D. Benser. London: Longman and Broderip, [approximately 1782]
[Sonatas, keyboard, op. 3. No. 1] Sonata. / By Peter Guglielmi. [Manuscript] [before 1821]
A favourite lesson for the great, or small harp, piano forte, or harpsichord. / By Felicee Fiorini. [London]: sold by J. Blundell, [1781?]
French air, with variations / by Dr. Wainwright. [Manuscript] [before 1821]
[Unidentified work, and Marlborough s’en va-t-en guerre] [Manuscript] [before 1821]
March / by Joseph Mazzinghi. [Manuscript] [before 1821]
La droppa. [Manuscript] [before 1821]
Lesson. [Manuscript] [before 1821]
Cottillons. [Manuscript] [before 1821]
Allemande / Sigr. Nicolai. [Manuscript] [before 1821]
Rondo. [Manuscript] [before 1821]
The peasants dance. [Manuscript] [before 1821]
Minuet / J. Bailey. [Manuscript] [before 1821]
The Highland laddie. / By P. Hayes. Mus. Doc. [Manuscript] [before 1821]
First edition.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831.
Horden House Rare Books, Sydney.
Eliza Giffard. Two volumes, quarto, with two large folding engraved maps, one double page map, and 23 plates. Bound in original plain boards, rebacked. Covers of both volumes inscribed ‘Captain Beechey’s Voyage’, and volume number, in Giffard’s hand.
Eighth edition, corrected.
London: Printed for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, (Successors to Mr. Cadell), in the Strand, MDCCMCV [1795].
New York University, Special Collections.
Inscribed “Mary Eleanora Giffard, Nerquis, 1807” on title-page. Bound in speckled calf, gilt borders on front and rear boards, marbled endpapers.
Full bibliographic information
First edition.
London: Printed by E.P. for James Bowler, 1708..
Bow Window Books.
Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked. Signed on front pastedown: ‘Eliza Giffard – Nerquis, Flintshire 1807′.
Note: book includes folded sheet containing extracts of poetry in another hand, circa 1849. Also with bookseller’s invoice from Arnold Muirhead, St. Alban’s, dating from 1966.
31st edition.
London: J.F. and C. Rivington, 1781.
Tarrington Books.
Contemporary plain black cloth binding. Signed to the front pastedown endpaper: ‘Eliza Giffard Nerquis, Flintshire, 1807′.
Third edition.
London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1827.
Private collection.
Volume 1 only. Inscribed on front free endpaper: “Eliza Giffard Nerquis”. Bound in polished calf with double gilt fillets on front and rear covers, and black double fillets with rosette motif at corners inside gilt. Spine with four raised bacnds, gilt decorations. Red morocco labels “Keppel’s Narrative” and “Vol. I” below first and third bands respectively. Red marbled endpapers. No evidence of mss. inscription on spine.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817.
Special Collections, New York University
Special Collections copy inscribed on front pastedown and titlepage: “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire”. Bound in drab publishers paper boards, with manuscript hand ‘India’ along spine and remainder of hand at head of spine [unclear]. Spine has been rebacked, saving parts of original.
Full bibliographic information
[London] : Sold by J. Marshall, London. By S. Hazard, at Bath; J. Elder, at Edinburgh [1796]
University of Oxford, Bodleian Library
Binding: half calf, marbled paper boards. MS additions, and ms. list of contents to volume. Inscribed Eliza Giffard. Provenance, Nerquis Lending Library. Bound with 74 other chapbooks.
Listed on front free end-papers of bound volume, indexed titles in Giffard’s hand. No. 65; marked “Sunday reading”.
London : Sold by J. Marshall, (printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts) No. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, and R. White, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard, at Bath, and by all booksellers, newsmen and hawkers, in town and country. Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers [1796]
University of Oxford, Bodleian Library
Binding: half calf, marbled paper boards. MS additions, and ms. list of contents to volume. Inscribed Eliza Giffard. Provenance, Nerquis Lending Library. Bound with 74 other chapbooks.
Listed on front free end-papers of bound volume, indexed titles in Giffard’s hand. No. 64; marked “Sunday reading”.
University of Oxford, Bodleian Library
Binding: half calf, marbled paper boards. MS additions, and ms. list of contents to volume. Inscribed Eliza Giffard. Provenance, Nerquis Lending Library. Bound with 74 other chapbooks.
Listed on front free end-papers of bound volume, indexed titles in Giffard’s hand. No. 63; marked “Sunday reading”.
[London] : Sold by J. Marshall, … London. By S. Hazard, at Bath, and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers in town and country. [1796?]
University of Oxford, Bodleian Library
Binding: half calf, marbled paper boards. MS additions, and ms. list of contents to volume. Inscribed Eliza Giffard. Provenance, Nerquis Lending Library. Bound with 74 other chapbooks.
Listed on front free end-papers of bound volume, indexed titles in Giffard’s hand. No. 62; marked “Sunday reading”.
University of Oxford, Bodleian Library
Binding: half calf, marbled paper boards. MS additions, and ms. list of contents to volume. Inscribed Eliza Giffard. Provenance, Nerquis Lending Library. Bound with 74 other chapbooks.
Listed on front free end-papers of bound volume, indexed titles in Giffard’s hand. No. 61; marked “Sunday reading”.