Description of the character, manners, and customs of the people of India

And of their institutions, religious and civil.

J.A. Dubois

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817.

Special Collections, New York University

Special Collections copy inscribed on front pastedown and titlepage: “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire”. Bound in drab publishers paper boards, with manuscript hand ‘India’ along spine and remainder of hand at head of spine [unclear]. Spine has been rebacked, saving parts of original.

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Title-page of “Description of the character, manners, and customs of the people of India” (1817), with ownership inscription. Courtesy NYU Special Collections.
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Claudine, or, Pertinacity: a novel

by Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle, author of Mortimer Hall, The vindictive spirit, Prison house, Baron of Falconberg, &c. &c.

[Elizabeth Thomas of Tidenham]. 

In three volumes

London: Printed at the Minerva Press, for A.K Newman and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1817.

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

Inscribed, ‘Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire’ on front pastedowns. Retains original paper publishers’ bindings.

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The deserter: a novel

Amelia Beauclerc

In four volumes

London: Printed at the Minerva Press, for A.K. Newman and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1817.

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

Inscribed “Eliza Giffard” on front pastedown, and “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire” on title pages. Retains original paper publishers’ bindings.

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Memoirs of an American lady: with sketches of manners and scenery in America

as they existed previous to the revolution. by the author of “letters from the mountain,” &c. &c. 

[Anne MacVicar Grant]

In two volumes. Third edition.

London: Printed for A.K. Newman and Co. Leadenhall-Street, 1817.

New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections.

Inscribed, Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire, on front paste-down and title pages of both volumes. Labeled in manuscript ink on spine above printed spine label. In original publishers’ grey over blue papers boards, as issued, untrimmed. 

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Title-page of “Memoirs of an American lady”, showing ownership inscription. Courtesy NYU Special Collections.

Private memoirs, Forming, with the Works of M. Hue, and Clery’s Journal, A Complete History of the Captivity of the Royal Family of France, in the Tower of the Temple

Marie-Therese Charlotte, Duchesse d’Angouleme

Edinburgh, George Ramsay and Company, 1817.

New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections

SpecCol. c.1 has inscription: “Eliza Giffard Nerquis, Flintshire” on title page. Additional inscription: “Eliza Giffard” on front pastedown. SpecCol. copy bound in original blue-grey paper boards, tan paper spine with title in manuscript hand at head of spine.

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The knight of St. John: a romance

Anna Maria Porter

In three volumes

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817.

New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections

Fales Brit set inscribed: Eliza Giffard, Nerquis Flintshire, on inner pastedown endpapers. In original drab paper covered boards with title, “Kt. St. John” and volume numbers in ms. hand at head of spine on each volume above labels.

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Spines showing manuscript titles and volume numbers at head of all volumes. Courtesy NYU Special Collections.
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Ownership inscription on title-page of volume 3 of “The Knight of St. John” (1817). Courtesy NYU Special Collections. 
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Ownership inscription in volume 1 of “The village of Mariendorpt” (1821). Courtesy NYU Special Collections.

 

Family annals, or, The sisters

Mary Hays

London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1817.

New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections

Special Collections copy 1 inscribed: Eliza Giffard on front pastedown. Copy in original blue paper covered boards with drab paper spine, with title ‘The Sisters’ in ms. hand at head. Paper label showing title, and price, ‘5 shillings in boards’. 

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