The shepherd of Salisbury Plain

Z (Hannah More)

[London : Sold by J. Marshall (printer to the Cheap Repository) for Moral and Religious Tracts,) No. 17, Queen-street, Cheapside, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane, [1795]

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 as item 12 on front free end-papers of bound volume, in Giffard’s hand.

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Tom White the postillion [The history of Tom White, the postillion]

Z (Hannah More)

[[Bath] : Sold by S. Hazard, (printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts,) at Bath ; [1795?]

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 as item 11 on front free end-papers of bound volume, in Giffard’s hand.

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Prayers [Prayers : to be used by a child or young person; by a grown peron; by the master or mistress of a Sunday school; and, by the master or mistress of a family] [Sunday reading]

[London : Sold by Howard and Evans, (printers to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts,) No. 41 and 42, Long Lane, West Smithfield : [between 1801 and 1811]

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. 10; marked “Sunday reading”.

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The ten commandments [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. Nos. 8 & 9; marked “Sunday reading”.

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Divine worship [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. 7; marked “Sunday reading”.

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On the Lord’s day [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. 6; marked “Sunday reading”.

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Joseph and his brethren [Sunday reading]

[Sold by J. Marshall (printer to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts) No. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard; 179-?]

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. 5; marked “Sunday reading”.

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Mrs. Wilkins [The History of Mrs. Wilkins; or, the Happiness of Having God for a Friend, in a Time of Trial.]

[Liverpool: Religious Tract Society, 179-?]

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 as item 3, “Mrs Wilkins” on front free end-papers of bound volume, in Giffard’s hand.

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Two wealthy farmers

Z (Hannah More)

[West-Smithfield [London]: Sold by J. Evans and Co. ; London : [Sold by] J. Hatchard ; Bath : [Sold by] S. Hazard, [179-?]

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 as item 2, “Two wealthy farmers” on front free end-papers of bound volume, in Giffard’s hand.

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Vivian’s dialogues [Three dialogues between a Minister and one of his parishioners]

[Thomas Vivian]

[London: Religious Tract Society, 1799?]

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 as item 1 under title “Vivian’s dialogues” on front free end-paper of bound volume, in Giffard’s hand.

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A new Christmas tract; or, The right way of rejoicing at Christmas

Shewing the reasons we have for joy at the event of our Saviour’s birth. In which also a description is given of the dreadful state the world was in before his coming…

John Lee

[London]: Sold by J. Evans & Son…and J. Hatchard,…by J. Binns, Bath:–and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers in town and country, [between ca.1813 and 1820?]

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.

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Simple tales

Mrs. Opie [Amelia Opie]

In four volumes

First edition

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row, 1806.

Fales Library. New York University Special Collections. 

Fales Brit copy inscribed ‘Mary Eleanor Giffard (Nerquis) 1807’on title page. In original publishers’ green-blue boards with ms. title, author and volume numbers at head of spine.

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Book spines with handwritten text at top.
Manuscript titling at spine heads on volumes of “Simple tales” (1806). Courtesy NYU Special Collections.
Title-page of book with ownership inscription.
Ownership inscription on title-page of volume 2 of “Simple tales” (1806). Courtesy NYU Special Collections.

Hesitation, or, To marry or not to marry?

[Elizabeth B. Lester]

In three volumes

London: Printed by Strahan and Spottiswood, Printers-Street, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1819.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Inscribed “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire” on title pages and “Eliza Giffard” on front paste-downs. Retains original paper publishers’ bindings.

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The bandit chief, or, Lords of Urvino: a romance

In four volumes

London: Printed at the Minerva Press, for A.K. Newman and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1818.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Inscribed “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire” on front paste-downs. Retains original paper publishers’ bindings. Title handwritten on spine by Elizabeth Giffard.

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The bard of the West, commonly called Eman ac Knuck, or, Ned of the hills

an Irish historical romance, founded on facts of the seventh century

Mrs. Peck, author of the “Maid of Avon”, “Welch Peasant Boy,” “Young Rosinere,” “Vaga,” &c.
[Frances Peck]

In three volumes

London: Published by Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row, and John Cumming, Dublin, 1818.

University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Inscribed ‘Eliza Giffard (Nerquis Flintshire)’ on title pages ad ‘Eliza Giffard’ on front pastedowns. Retains original publishers’ bindings.

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