THE COLLECTION OF A GEORGIAN WOMAN READER
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 paste-downs and on title pages. Retains original publishers’ bindings.
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.
The eighth edition.
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1805.
Brown University, John Carter Brown Library
John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in contemporary blue paper covered boards with unbleached paper spine; fore edge and bottom edge of text block untrimmed. Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Eliza Giffard: ms. autograph on front pastedown and on title page.
In three volumes
London: Printed at the Minerva Press for Lane, Newman, and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1805.
Yale University, Beinecke Library
Advertising matter: at end v. 1 and 2. Autograph of Eliza Giffard.
In three volumes
London: Printed at Minerva Press for Lane, Newman and Co., Leadenhall-street, 1804.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Binding: Bound in bookseller’s boards covered in grey paper; title and volume number inscribed on spine in ink in a contemporary hand; volume number embossed in black on spine; printed binding waste. Publisher’s advertisements in volume 1, pae [264] and in volume 2, pages [223]-[224].
Note in previous bibliographic record: acquired from Pickering, 17 August 1954.
Mary Julia Young
In two volumes
London: Printed by D.N. Shury, No.7 Berwick Street, Soho for J.F. Hughes, Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, 1805.
New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections
Inscribed, Eliza Giffard, Nerquis Flintshire, on title page and front pastedown endpaper with “397” in manuscript ink in volume 1 and “398” in volume 2. Bookplate of the Viven & Smith’s Circulating Library of Bishopsgate-Street on front pastedown endpaper of both volumes. In quarter calf with blue marbled paper covered boards. Gilt volume numbers on spine, and traces of Giffard’s mss. spine markings in ink.
