London: Printed for Tegg and Castleman, 122, St. John’s Street, West Smithfield, B. Crosby and Co. Stationers Court, Champante and Whitrow, Aldgate, Howard and Evans, Long Lane, Wilmot and Hill, Borough, T. Hughes, Queen’s Head Passage, and T. Ostell, Ave Maria Lane, [not after 1804]
University of Pennsylvania. Kislak Center for Special Collections – Singer-Mendenhall Collection.
Signature ‘Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire 1807’ on front pastedown.
London: Printed at the Minerva-Press for Lane, Newman, and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1805.
Special Collections, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Binding: Blue paper-covered boards; manuscript numbering on spines. “Eliza Giffard Nerquis, Flintshire” on title-pages and front pastedowns. Volumes 1 and 3 only present; volume 2 missing. Acquired as part of the Beverly Rogers Rare Book Collection, 2023.
A new edition of rosina, a comic opera, as performed at the theatre royal covent garden. Composed and selected by William Shield.
William Shield
New edition.
London: Longman and Broderip, [approximately 1790].
From the Cobbe Collection at Hatchlands Park. Courtesy of Alec Cobbe.
Inscribed ‘Eliza Giffard, Nerquis’. Bound oblong folio of printed and manuscript music, without markings or title on boards or spine. Endpapers watermarked ‘1821’. Only ‘Rosina’ inscribed directly with name. Manuscript contents on front endpaper in Giffard’s hand, listing contents of volume, as below:
[Storm, op. 4] Sonata: The storm; for the piano forte only / compos’d by J.D. Benser. London: Longman and Broderip, [approximately 1782]
[Sonatas, keyboard, op. 3. No. 1] Sonata. / By Peter Guglielmi. [Manuscript] [before 1821]
A favourite lesson for the great, or small harp, piano forte, or harpsichord. / By Felicee Fiorini. [London]: sold by J. Blundell, [1781?]
French air, with variations / by Dr. Wainwright. [Manuscript] [before 1821]
[Unidentified work, and Marlborough s’en va-t-en guerre] [Manuscript] [before 1821]
March / by Joseph Mazzinghi. [Manuscript] [before 1821]
London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1827.
Private collection.
Volume 1 only. Inscribed on front free endpaper: “Eliza Giffard Nerquis”. Bound in polished calf with double gilt fillets on front and rear covers, and black double fillets with rosette motif at corners inside gilt. Spine with four raised bacnds, gilt decorations. Red morocco labels “Keppel’s Narrative” and “Vol. I” below first and third bands respectively. Red marbled endpapers. No evidence of mss. inscription on spine.
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.
Title-page of “Description of the character, manners, and customs of the people of India” (1817), with ownership inscription. Courtesy NYU Special Collections.Front paste-down of “Description of the character, manners, and customs of the people of India” (1817), showing ownership inscription.
Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Rare Book copy 2: Binding: Paper covered boards with tan paper spine with printed spine labels and manuscript volume numbers. Rare Book copy 2: From the library of Eliza Giffard with her name on title pages and on front pastedowns.
