THE COLLECTION OF A GEORGIAN WOMAN READER
In three volumes.
London : Printed at the Minerva-Press, for A.K. Newman and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1816.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Inscribed “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire” on front paste-downs and “Eliza Giffard (Nerquis)” on title pages. Retains original paper publishers’ bindings. Advertisements in volume 1, page [252] and volume 3, page [268].
London: Printed for John Murray, 1816.
In three volumes.
Note regarding the first edition, in original boards, from The Book Collector, Winter 1975, Query 296, p.608. From the Collection of Charles Beecher Hogan; sold at Sotheby’s New York, 11 October 1991. Current whereabouts unknown.
2nd edition.
London: Printed for T. Hookham Jun. and Co. Old Bond Street; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row, 1816.
New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections
Inscribed ‘Eliza Giffard’ on front pastedown. In original publishers’ blue boards with paper spine label and ms. title in ink at head of spine in Giffard’s hand.
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Second edition.
London: For J. Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1816.
University of Cambridge
Provenance of Keynes.K.1.4-6: from the library of Sir Geoffrey Keynes. – Inscribed: Eliza Giffard, Nerquis, Flintshire. Bound in paper covered boards.
In three volumes
London: H. Colburn, 1816.
University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Singer-Mendenhall Collection
Provenance: Gifford, Elizabeth [sic] (autograph)
In two volumes
London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1816 (London: Printed by C. Roworth), 1816.
New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections
Fales Brit volumes inscribed inside of front cover and on title pages of vol. 1 & 2: Eliza Giffard, Nerquis Flintshire. In original publishers’ drab boards with ms. spine markings of title and volume numbers, in Giffard’s hand.
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In three volumes
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816.
New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections
Fales Brit copy 1 inscribed: ‘Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire’ on front pastedowns and title pages of volumes 2 and 3. Inscribed ‘Eliza Giffard Nerquis’ on title page of volume 1. Fales Brit copy 1 has bookplate: Maxwell of Polloc. In publishers’ original drab boards with paper labels and ms. writing at head of spines on all three volumes with title and volume numbers in Giffard’s hand.
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London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown…, 1816.
Morgan Library & Museum
Signed “Eliza Giffard, Verquis Flintshire” [sic] Bequest of Gordon N. Ray. Publisher’s gray boards, paper spine label.