Category: Philosophy & Religion

Books from the Giffard Library that cover philosophical and religious subjects, including morality, classical and Christian ethics.

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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The great importance of a religious life considered: to which are added, some morning and evening prayers

William Melmoth

The thirteenth edition.

London: : Printed by T. Maiden, for J. Sewell … and Vernor and Hood …, 1798.

University of Texas, Harry Ransom Center

Inscribed: Eliza Giffard, Nerquis Flintshire, 1807; “A prayer for the new year” mounted on front end paper.

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An inquiry into the moral and political tendency of the religion called Roman Catholic

Thomas Potts

London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1790.

In the collection of Jonathan E. Hill.

Full contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt floral spine; hinges cracked but firm, lacking label. Ownership inscription of ‘Eliza Giffard – Nerquis, Flintshire, 1807’, on inner front board.

Discourses on several subjects and occasions

George Horne

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, : Printed for D. Prince and J. Cooke, Oxford; and J.F. and C. Rivington, G. Robinson, and T. Cadell, London., 1779.

In two volumes. 

University of Texas at Austin. Harry Ransom Center

Inscribed: Eliza Giffard Nerquis, Flintshire 1807.

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Theologiae moralis summa

in qua per traditas distinctiones, brevia ac facilia firmantur theoremata ad quoslibet conscientiae causus resolvendos accomodata. 

Clemente Piselli

Venetiis : Ex typographia Balleoniana, 1723.

In two volumes. 

New York University. Special Collections. 

SpecCol c.1 (v.1 & 2) are inscribed: Eliza Giffard, Nerquis Flintshire 1807. Copies bound in vellum with title and volume number in mss. hand at head of spine, in Giffard’s hand. Copies have title and decorative motif also in mss. hand mid-spine. Five raised bands, text bands speckled red. 

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Book spines with handwritten text at top and decoration.
Spines of set of “Theologiae moralis summa” (1723), showing manuscript titling and decoration. Courtesy NYU Special Collections.
Inside cover of book showing ownership inscription.
Front paste-down of “Theologiae moralis summa”, volume 1 (1723), with ownership inscription. Courtesy of NYU Special Collections.

Authenticated report of the discussion which took place between the rev. Richard T.P. Pope and the rev. Thomas Maguire in the lecture room of the Dublin institution, 1827.

Richard Thomas P. Pope

Dubl., 1827.

Oxford University, Bodleian Library

Provenance name: Giffard, Eliza. – Provenance note: Signed: Eliza Giffard.

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A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians

in the higher and middle classes in this country, contrasted with real Christianity. By William Wilberforce, Esq. member of Parliament for the county of York.

William Wilberforce

The eighth edition.

London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1805.

Brown University, John Carter Brown Library

John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in contemporary blue paper covered boards with unbleached paper spine; fore edge and bottom edge of text block untrimmed. Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Eliza Giffard: ms. autograph on front pastedown and on title page.

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Thoughts in prison: in five parts…to which is added his last prayer, written in the night before his death; and other miscellaneous pieces.

William Dodd, LLD.

London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly…, and G. Kearsly…, 1777.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Rare Book Collection

Autograph on endpaper: Eliza Gifford, Nerquis, Flintshire, 1807.

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Sermons preached at Lincoln’s-Inn, between the years 1765 and 1776

with a larger discourse, on Christ’s driving the merchant’s out of the Temple, etc.

Richard Hurd

London: by W. Bowyer & J. Nichols, for T. Cadell, 1776.

York Minster. Special Collections – Old Library. 

Signature of ‘Eliza Giffard, 1807’; purchased 1979. Volume one only, of three. 

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Introduction to the art of thinking

Henry Home Kames

Third edition, enlarged with additions maxims and illustrations.

London: Printed for T. Cadell in the Strand, and W. Creech, Edinburgh, MDCCLXXV [1775]

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

Provenance: Inscription on front paste-down of each volume: “Eliza Giffard, Nerquis, Flintshire”; inscription on title-page of each volume: “Eliza Giffard, Nerquis”.

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Sermons and discourses on several subjects and occasions

Francis Atterbury

The eighth edition

London: Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, J. Rivington, W. Johnston, R. Baldwin, S. Crowder…[and 3 others], 1766.

University of Texas at Austin. Harry Ransom Center.

Inscribed: Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire 1807; armorial bookplate (of the Giffard family?)

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