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.

Accusing spirit, or, De Coursey and Eglantine: a romance

Miss Pilkington (Mary Susanna)

London: Printed at the Minerva-Press, for Lane and Newman, Leadenhall-Street, 1802

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

All volumes: “Eliza Giffard” inscribed inside of front wrapper and “Eliza Giffard, Nerquis, Flintshire” inscribed on title-page. Retains original paper publisher’s bindings. Binding: Bound uniformly in contemporary light-blue paper; title and volume number inscribed in pen on spine.

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