Tag: 1804

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. 
Inside cover of book showing ownership inscription.
Ownership inscription on front paste-down of “Poems” (1804). Courtesy NYU Special Collections.

English exercises, adapted to Murray’s English grammar

Designed for the benefit of private learners, as well as for the use of schools, by Lindley Murray.

The eighth edition, improved.

York : printed by T. Wilson and R. Spence …, for T. Longman and O. Rees …; Darton and Harvey …, London; and Wilson and Spence, York, 1804.

Trinity College, Dublin.

With MS name Maria Eleanora Giffard, Nerquis, 1807. Bound in contemporary sprinkled sheep.

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Amazement: a novel

By Mrs. Meeke, author of Ellesmere, Midnight weddings, &c. 

In three volumes

London: Printed at the Minerva Press, for Lane and Newman, Leadenhall-Street, 1804.

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

Binding: Bound uniformly in original boards, with white paper over spine and light blue paper over boards; title and volume number written in ink on spine. Provenance: “Eliza Giffard, Nerquis, Flintshire” inscribed in ink on front paste-down and title-page; acquired from Pickering, 17 August 1954. Publisher’s advertisements in volume 2, pages [275]-[276] and volume 3, page [280]. 

UIUC attributes novel to Mary Meeke (d.1818); ODNB attributes to Elizabeth Meeke (circa 1726-1826). 

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