THE COLLECTION OF A GEORGIAN WOMAN READER
1 vocal score (112 p.)
London: Printed for Harrison & Co…, [ca. 1785]
Oxford University. Bodleian Library.
Binding: Half mottled calf with marbled paper boards. Provenance name: Giffard, Eliza. Provenance note: Inscribed: “Eliza Giffard – Nerquis, Flintshire – 1807”
London: Sold by G. Nicol, Pall-Mall; and J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1793.
Silent World Foundation Library
Subscriber’s copy, inscribed on title-page: “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire 1807”, and lettered in another hand on the cover “Mrs. Giffard”. Note: subscriber’s list [p.xi] lists both ‘Mrs. Gifford, Nerquis’ and ‘Miss Gifford’.
London: Printed for T. Becket, 81, Pall Mall., 1805.
Eton College.
Ownership inscription on title-page: Maria Eleanora Giffard (Nerquis) 1807. Contemporary light blue paper over stiff card boards; spine covered in cream paper; printed spine label; deckled edges.
In six volumes
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1754-62.
University of Texas, Austin. Harry Ransom Center.
HRC cop. 1 [ATR] [STR]: v. 1-2 inscribed: Eliza Giffard, 1807; armorial bookplate of Eliza Giffard [?]; was Aitken: Am/H882/762h/v. 1-2/Stark; v. [3-4] armorial bookplates of Phil: Baker and John George Mogg; v. [4] ms. note relating to Princess Elizabeth’s imprisonment in the Tower (tipped in); was Aitken: Am/H882/759h/v. 1-2/Stark; v. [5-6] inscribed: Eliza Giffard, 1807; armorial bookplate of Eliza Giffard [?]; was Aitken: Am/H882/754h/v. 1-2/Stark. Cop. 2 imperfect: v. 3 wanting; v. 2: illegible inscription; v. [4]: inscribed: Eliza Giffard; v. 5-6: armorial bookplate of Biddulph, Ledbury; inscribed: N. [?] Biddulph; v. [4] inscribed: Eliza Giffard; armorial bookplate of Eliza Giffard [?]
Two volumes
[London]: Printed for the author at Mr. Welker’s, [ca. 1777-1779]
Yale University. Music Library Special Collections.
Title page of Book 1, copy 2 signed: “Miss Jeffries, 1790. Title page of Book 1, copy 2 signed: “Eliza Giffard. Nerquis. Flintshire, 1807.” Book 1 only; lacks p. 1-4, 39-40. Bound together with Guida di musica / James Hook.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster-row; and James Cundee, Ivy-lane, 1806.
New York University, Special Collections.
Special Collections copy has inscription: “Eliza Giffard Nerquis, Flintshire 1807” on title-page.
Full bibliographic information
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]