publishers’ bindings – Page 2 – The Library of Eliza Giffard

Warbeck of Wolfsteïn

by miss holford, author of wallace, &c.

Margaret Holford

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.

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Things by their right names: a novel

By the author of “Plain sense” and “Disobedience”

[Frances Jacson]

In two volumes.

Second edition.

London: Printed for G. and S. Robinson, and Gale, Curtis and Fenner, Paternoster-Row, 1814.

New York University. Special Collections. Fales Library.

Fales Brit copies inscribed, Eliza Giffard Nerquis, Flintshire, on front paste-down and title pages of both volumes. In original blue-green boards, and truncated title in ms. hand at head of spine, followed by volume number and black ink dots.

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Book spines with handwritten text at top. — Spine head detail of both volumes of “Things by their right names” (1814), showing manuscript titling. Courtesy NYU Special Collections.

Inside cover of book showing ownership inscription. — Front paste-down, showing ownership inscription, volume 1. Courtesy NYU Special Collections.

Title-page of book with ownership inscription. — Title-page with ownership inscription at head. Courtesy NYU Special Collections.

The Hungarian brothers

Anna Maria Porter

In three volumes

Third edition

London: Longman, etc., 1814.

In the collection of Jonathan E. Hill.

Uncut in contemporary drab boards, purple spines, paper labels. Volumes II & III lettered with title in ink at head of spines. Each volume signed Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire.

Winter evening tales:

collected among the cottagers in the south of Scotland

James Hogg

In two volumes

Edinburgh: Printed for Oliver & Boyd, High Street; and London: G. & W.B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane, 1820.

New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections

Inscribed, Eliza Giffard Nerquis, Flintshire, on front pastedown and title page. Labeled in manuscript ink ‘Hoggs Tales’ on spine above printed spine label, with volume numbers. In original blue paper covered boards, as issued, edges untrimmed.

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Forman: a tale

[Abel Moysey; attributed to Henry, Lord Brougham by Halkett and Laing]

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.

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The adventures of a king’s page

by the author of “almack’s revisited”.

[Charles White]

In three volumes.

London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1829. Printed by S. and R. Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.

Inscribed, ‘Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire’ on front paste-downs of each volume. Bookseller’s label of “Poole & Harding” of Chester. In publisher’s blue paper covered boards with drab paper covered spine. Printed labels on spine, with Giffard’s manuscript ink spine titles and volume numbers.

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Emmeline. With some other pieces.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A MEMOIR OF HER LIFE INCLUDING SOME EXTRACTS FROM HER CORRESPONDENCE.

Mary Brunton

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.

Poems: tales, odes, sonnets, translations from the British. &c. &c.

Richard Llwyd

In two volumes. Bound in one.

Chester: Printed by J. Fletcher; and sold in London by E. Williams, no. 11 Strand, bookseller to the Duke and Duchess of York and bookseller of Wales, 1804.

New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections

Fales Brit c.1 inscribed by Eliza Giffard on front pastedown. Bookplate: J.O. Edwards. Bound in original drab paper boards with printed spine, orange colored paper label. Additional ms. markings at head of spines”Poems by Mr. Llwyd” in Giffard’s hand. Publisher’s advertisement–[p.213].

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Book spine with handwritten text at top. — Manuscript title and author at head of spine of Llwyd’s “Poems” (1804). Courtesy NYU Special Collections.

Elliott, or, Vicissitudes of early life.

Adela Northington Burke

In two volumes.

London : Printed and published by Geo. Cawthorn, British Library, no. 132, Strand, bookseller to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales : Sold also by Messrs. Richardson, Royal Exchange; H.D. Symonds, J. Wallis West and Hughes, Paternoster-Row; and J. Wright, Piccadilly, 1800.

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

Inscribed “Maria Eleanora Giffard (Nerquis) 1807” on title pages. Retains original publishers’ bindings. Subscribers’ list on pages [i]-viii. Advertisements on pages [339] and [340] in volume 1.

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Letters for literary ladies: to which is added, An essay on the noble science of self-justification

Maria Edgeworth

2nd edition, corrected and much enlarged.

London: Printed for J. Johnson, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1799.

New York University. Special Collections. Fales Library.

Title page signed “Maria Eleanora Giffard, Nerquis, 1807”. Untrimmed in original pale blue boards, as issued, white paper covering spine (rebacked). Leaves for pages 217 to 240 unopened.

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Private memoirs, Forming, with the Works of M. Hue, and Clery’s Journal, A Complete History of the Captivity of the Royal Family of France, in the Tower of the Temple

Marie-Therese Charlotte, Duchesse d’Angouleme

Edinburgh, George Ramsay and Company, 1817.

New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections

SpecCol. c.1 has inscription: “Eliza Giffard Nerquis, Flintshire” on title page. Additional inscription: “Eliza Giffard” on front pastedown. SpecCol. copy bound in original blue-grey paper boards, tan paper spine with title in manuscript hand at head of spine.

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Book spine with handwritten text along spine. — Spine of “Private memoirs…” (1817), showing manuscript titling along spine. Courtesy NYU Special Collections.

The spinster’s journal

Medora Gordon Byron [“A modern antique”]

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].

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Emma: a novel.

by the author of “Pride and prejudice, &c. &c.

[Jane Austen]

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.

Headlong Hall

Thomas Love Peacock

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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Inside cover of book with owner inscription in brown ink — Front paste-down of “Headlong Hall” showing ownership inscription. Courtesy of NYU Special Collections.

Detail of book spine with handwritten text. — Spine head detail showing manuscript title. Courtesy NYU Special Collections.

Theresa, or, The wizard’s fate: a romance

In four 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 Flintshire” on front paste-downs and on title pages. Retains original paper publisher’s bindings. Publisher’s advertisements in volume 2, pages [263]-[264], volume 3, page [260], volume 4, pages [259]-[260].

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