Month: August 2018

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.