THE COLLECTION OF A GEORGIAN WOMAN READER
Currently held by Roger Treglown Rare & Antiquarian Books.
Third edition of poems; First edition of illustrations. Inscribed ‘Eliza Giffard’ on front pastedown. Half light-blue goatskin over marbled paper boards. With ex libris of Beryl Williams on front endpaper.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814.
Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
With signature ‘Eliza Giffard’ on front pastedown, and ‘Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire’ on title page of each volume.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster-row; and James Cundee, Ivy-lane, 1806.
New York University, Special Collections.
Special Collections copy has inscription: “Eliza Giffard Nerquis, Flintshire 1807” on title-page.
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In three volumes.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, 1818.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Inscribed “Eliza Giffard” on front paste-downs of volume 1 and 2, and “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire” on front paste-down of volume 3 and title pages of all volumes. Retains original paper publishers’ bindings. Advertisements after page 266 in volume 1, and page [184] in volume 3.
Note in record that source of acquisition was 7 Gables Bookshop. .
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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In four volumes
First edition
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row, 1806.
Fales Library. New York University Special Collections.
Fales Brit copy inscribed ‘Mary Eleanor Giffard (Nerquis) 1807’on title page. In original publishers’ green-blue boards with ms. title, author and volume numbers at head of spine.
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In three volumes
London: Printed by Strahan and Spottiswood, Printers-Street, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1819.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Inscribed “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire” on title pages and “Eliza Giffard” on front paste-downs. Retains original paper publishers’ bindings.
In three volumes
Third edition
London: Longman, etc., 1814.
In the collection of Jonathan E. Hill.
Uncut in contemporary drab boards, purple spines, paper labels. Volumes II & III lettered with title in ink at head of spines. Each volume signed Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire.
In three volumes.
Edinburgh: Printed for George Ramsay & Co. for Manners and Miller, Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1814.
New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections
Inscribed, ‘Eliza Giffard, Nerquis Flintshire’ on front pastedown, with her signature also on title page. Bound in three quarter leather with brown marbled boards, gilt double rules and gilt lettered labels on spines.
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In three volumes.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1813.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Inscribed “Eliza Giffard” on front paste-downs and “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire” on title pages. Retains original paper publisher’s bindings.
In three volumes
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1813.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champign, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Inscribed “Eliza Giffard” on front paste-downs and “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire” on title pages. Retains original paper publisher’s bindings.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830.
University of Toronto, Massey College Library (Robertson Davies)
With ownership inscription: “Eliza Giffard Nerquis”. Bound in brown paper-covered boards with beige title label printed in black on spine.
In four volumes
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821.
New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections
Fales Brit copy 1 inscribed: ‘Eliza Giffard, Nerquis Flintshire’ on title pages and ‘Eliza Giffard’ on front pastedowns. In original publishers’ blue boards with drab spines, paper labels and ms. title and volume numbers in Giffard’s hand.
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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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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