THE COLLECTION OF A GEORGIAN WOMAN READER
Novels published between 1816 and 1820 in the Giffard Library
Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh: and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 90 Cheapside, London, 1820.
Private collection
First edition. Volumes 2 & 3 only located. With signature ‘Eliza Giffard’ on title pages, and ‘Eliza Giffard Nerquis Hall’ on front pastedowns. Bound in half leather over marbled paper boards; spine rebacked [?]
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. .
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.
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.
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.
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’ on front pastedowns. Retains original publishers’ boards.
In three volumes
London: Printed at the Minerva Press, for A.K Newman and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1817.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Inscribed, ‘Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire’ on front pastedowns. Retains original paper publishers’ bindings.
In four volumes
London: Printed at the Minerva Press, for A.K. Newman and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1817.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Inscribed “Eliza Giffard” on front pastedown, and “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire” on title pages. Retains original paper publishers’ bindings.
In three volumes
First edition
London: Printed for Rodwell & Martin, New Bond-Street, 1820.
Originally listed in Jarndyce catalogue, Women Writers G-O, issued May 2018. Listed by Type Punch Matrix, 2022. Acquired by Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, 2022.
Uncut in original pink boards; quarter bound, with paper spine label. Volumes I & II with original spine labels. Each volume with the signature of “Eliza Giffard Nerquis, Flintshire”, on leading pastedown, and further inscribed “Eliza Giffard” on title page. Volume I also inscribed ‘From the author’ on the upper flyleaf.
In two volumes. Third edition.
London: Printed for A.K. Newman and Co. Leadenhall-Street, 1817.
New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections.
Inscribed, Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire, on front paste-down and title pages of both volumes. Labeled in manuscript ink on spine above printed spine label. In original publishers’ grey over blue papers boards, as issued, untrimmed.
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In three volumes.
London: Printed for Ogle, Duncan, and Co. 37 Paternoster Row, and 295, Holborn; and Ogle, Allardice, and Thomson, Edinburgh, 1819.
New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections
Inscribed, ‘Eliza Giffard Nerquis, Flintshire’ on title page and front pastedown of all volumes. Spine with manuscript label in ink. Blue paper covered boards, with brown paper covered spines and printed labels. Title, ‘Forman’ written in ms. hand on head of spine, with volume numbers.
First edition.
Edinburgh: Manners & Miller, & Archibald Constable & Co., 1819.
In the collection of Jonathan E. Hill.
Uncut in original blue boards, drab spine with paper label, head of spine additionally titled in ms. Signature of Eliza Giffard, Nerquis, Flintshire on leading pastedown.
In three volumes.
London : Printed at the Minerva-Press, for A.K. Newman and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1816.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Inscribed “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire” on front paste-downs and “Eliza Giffard (Nerquis)” on title pages. Retains original paper publishers’ bindings. Advertisements in volume 1, page [252] and volume 3, page [268].
London: Printed for John Murray, 1816.
In three volumes.
Note regarding the first edition, in original boards, from The Book Collector, Winter 1975, Query 296, p.608. From the Collection of Charles Beecher Hogan; sold at Sotheby’s New York, 11 October 1991. Current whereabouts unknown.
2nd edition.
London: Printed for T. Hookham Jun. and Co. Old Bond Street; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row, 1816.
New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections
Inscribed ‘Eliza Giffard’ on front pastedown. In original publishers’ blue boards with paper spine label and ms. title in ink at head of spine in Giffard’s hand.
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