morality – Page 6 – The Library of Eliza Giffard

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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The village library: intended for the use of young persons

Miss [Elizabeth] Gunning

London: Printed for B. Crosby and Co., Stationers’-Court, Paternoster-Row, 1802. Printer: J. Cundee, Ivy-Land.

New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections.

Inscribed, “Eliza Giffard Nerquis, Flintshire 1807”, on front pastedown endpaper. In marbled paper covered boards (marbled paper is printed waste). Dark brown leather covered spine with printed label on red paper.

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Inside cover of book showing ownership inscription — Front paste-down of “The village library” (1802) showing ownership inscription. Courtesy NYU Special Collections.

Cover of book showing marbled paper — Front cover of “The village library”, showing use of paper scrap in marbling. Courtesy of NYU Special Collections.

Discourses on several subjects and occasions

George Horne

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, : Printed for D. Prince and J. Cooke, Oxford; and J.F. and C. Rivington, G. Robinson, and T. Cadell, London., 1779.

In two volumes.

University of Texas at Austin. Harry Ransom Center

Inscribed: Eliza Giffard Nerquis, Flintshire 1807.

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Theologiae moralis summa

in qua per traditas distinctiones, brevia ac facilia firmantur theoremata ad quoslibet conscientiae causus resolvendos accomodata.

Clemente Piselli

Venetiis : Ex typographia Balleoniana, 1723.

In two volumes.

New York University. Special Collections.

SpecCol c.1 (v.1 & 2) are inscribed: Eliza Giffard, Nerquis Flintshire 1807. Copies bound in vellum with title and volume number in mss. hand at head of spine, in Giffard’s hand. Copies have title and decorative motif also in mss. hand mid-spine. Five raised bands, text bands speckled red.

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Book spines with handwritten text at top and decoration. — Spines of set of “Theologiae moralis summa” (1723), showing manuscript titling and decoration. Courtesy NYU Special Collections.

Introduction to the art of thinking

Henry Home Kames

Third edition, enlarged with additions maxims and illustrations.

London: Printed for T. Cadell in the Strand, and W. Creech, Edinburgh, MDCCLXXV [1775]

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

Provenance: Inscription on front paste-down of each volume: “Eliza Giffard, Nerquis, Flintshire”; inscription on title-page of each volume: “Eliza Giffard, Nerquis”.

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The Whole duty of man laid down in a plain and familiar way for the use of all, but especially the meanest reader. Divided into VXII chapters. One whereof being read every Lord’s Day, the whole may be read over thrice in a year. With private devotions for several occasions.

Richard Allestree

London: Printed by W. Burton, for John Baskett, 1721

York Minster. Special Collections – Yorkshire Collection.

Signature of ‘Eliza Giffard, Nerquis Flintshire’. 1807. Purchased 1968. [record updated since 2015]

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