THE COLLECTION OF A GEORGIAN WOMAN READER
[London : Sold by J. Marshall (printer to the Cheap Repository) for Moral and Religious Tracts,) No. 17, Queen-street, Cheapside, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane, [1795]
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 12 on front free end-papers of bound volume, in Giffard’s hand.
[[Bath] : Sold by S. Hazard, (printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts,) at Bath ; [1795?]
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 11 on front free end-papers of bound volume, in Giffard’s hand.
[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.
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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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 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 two volumes
London: Printed for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1799.
New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections
Fales Brit copies bound in calf with ‘Female education by H. More’ and volume number in ms. hand at top of spine, volume 1; ‘Female education’ only written on volume 2. Both volumes have inscription, Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire 1807 on front pastedown.
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In two volumes
London: Printed at the Minerva-Press, for Lane, Newman and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1805.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Inscribed, Eliza Giffard Nerquis, Flintshire, on front pastedowns and on title pages. In original publishers’ bindings.
London: Printed at the Minerva-Press for Lane and Newman, Leadenhall-Street, 1803.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Inscribed, Eliza Giffard – Nerquis Flintshire, on title pages. Volumes 1 and 4 dated ‘1807’. In original paper publishers’ bindings.
[Mrs. Thicknesse?]
In three volumes
London: H. Colburn, 1829.
New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections
Fales Brit copy with bookseller ticket for Poole & Harding, Chester, on front inner pastedown. No ownership inscription.
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In two volumes.
First edition
London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1828.
New York University. Special Collections. Fales Library.
Inscribed: “Eliza Giffard Nerquis” on front paste-downs of both volumes, and “Eliza Giffard” on title-pages. Bound in original publishers’ blue paper boards, drab paper spines. Printed paper spine labels with titles and volume numbers. Manuscript ink titling and volume numbers in Giffard’s hand at head of spines, above labels. Twelve page publisher’s advertisements, dated December 1828, in front of volume 1. Evidence of printer’s waste at hinges of both volumes.
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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.