THE COLLECTION OF A GEORGIAN WOMAN READER
Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh: and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 90 Cheapside, London, 1820.
Private collection
First edition. Volumes 2 & 3 only located. With signature ‘Eliza Giffard’ on title pages, and ‘Eliza Giffard Nerquis Hall’ on front pastedowns. Bound in half leather over marbled paper boards; spine rebacked [?]
[London]: Sold by J. Evans & Son…and J. Hatchard,…by J. Binns, Bath:–and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers in town and country, [between ca.1813 and 1820?]
University of Oxford, Bodleian Library
Binding: half calf, marbled paper boards. MS additions, and ms. list of contents to volume. Inscribed Eliza Giffard. Provenance, Nerquis Lending Library. Bound with 74 other chapbooks.
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In two volumes
New edition
London: Printed for R. Hunter, successor to J.Johnson, St. Paul’s Churchyard; and Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, Paternoster Row; London: Stower & Smallfield, Printers, Hackney, 1815.
New York University. Special Collections. Fales Library
Fales Brit copy two volumes bound in one. Title page signed, “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire.” Bound in half calf, brown marble paper covered boards, marbled endpapers, red speckled edges.
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London: Printed for B. Crosby and Co., Stationers’-Court, Paternoster-Row, 1802. Printer: J. Cundee, Ivy-Land.
New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections.
Inscribed, “Eliza Giffard Nerquis, Flintshire 1807”, on front pastedown endpaper. In marbled paper covered boards (marbled paper is printed waste). Dark brown leather covered spine with printed label on red paper.
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In three volumes
London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, No. 62, St. Paul’s Churchyard, 1814.
New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections
Inscribed, ‘Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire’, on front pastedowns; ‘Eliza Giffard’ on title pages. In three-quarter leather over marbled paper boards. Evidence of paper label on spine. Single page of publishers’ advertisements at rear of volume 3.
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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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9th ed., considerably enl. and improved.
London: Printed by G & W.B. Whittaker, 13 Ave-Maria Lane, [1822].
New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections
Fales Brit. c.1 inscribed “Eliza Giffard Nerquis”–front pastedown. This copy bound with A catechism of geography. 1824 ; A catechism of British geography, in two parts, third ed., 1820. Bound in half calf over marbled paperboards ; black leather spine label with title “Astronomy, Geography, British Geography” in gold ; speckled edges.
A new edition
London: Tabart and Co., 1806
New York University. Special Collections. Fales Library.
Fales Brit. c.1 bound in marbled paperboards ; frontis. wanting. [5] p. of publisher’s advertisements at end. “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire 1807”–front pastedown.
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London: Printed for Vernor and Hood, no. 31, Poultry, 1800 ([London: Printed] by J. Bonsor, Salisbury Square), 1800.
New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections
Fales Brit. c.1 inscribed “Eliza Giffard Nerquis, Flintshire, 1807”–front pastedown. “Eleanor Gifford”–crossed out on title page. Bound in half-leather over marbled paper boards.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814.
New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections
Fales Brit set four volumes bound in two, in three quarter leather over marbled paper boards. Inscribed: ‘Eliza Giffard, Nerquis Flintshire’ on front pastedowns, both volumes, and ‘Eliza Giffard’ on title pages.
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Third edition
London: Printed at the Minerva-Press for A.K. Newman, 1809.
New York University. Special Collections. Fales Library
Fales Brit copy is inscribed ‘Eliza Giffard’ on title page of each volume. Colophon: Lane, Darling, and Co. Leadenhall-Street. [2] p. of advertisements for the Minerva Press bound at end of v. 2. Bound in three-quarter leather over marbled paper with gilt ornaments on spine.
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.
