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Emmeline. With some other pieces.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A MEMOIR OF HER LIFE INCLUDING SOME EXTRACTS FROM HER CORRESPONDENCE. 

Mary Brunton

First edition.

Edinburgh: Manners & Miller, & Archibald Constable & Co., 1819.

In the collection of Jonathan E. Hill.

Uncut in original blue boards, drab spine with paper label, head of spine additionally titled in ms. Signature of Eliza Giffard, Nerquis, Flintshire on leading pastedown.

Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African.

In two volumes. To which are prefixed, memoirs of his life. The first[-second] volume.

Ignatius Sancho

Second edition

London: Printed for J. Nichols; and C. Dilly in the Poultry, 1783.

New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections

SpecCol. c.1 has inscription: “Eliza Giffard- Nerquis, Flintshire, 1807”–front pastedown (v.1 & v.2). SpecCol. c.1 has 2 volumes. Bound in full tree calf; gold tooling on spine.

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Inside cover of book showing ownership inscription.
Ownership inscription in volume 2 of “Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African” (1783). Courtesy NYU Special Collections.
Front covers of two leather bound books.
Covers of the two-volume set of “Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African” (1783). 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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Book spine with handwritten text along spine.
Spine of “Private memoirs…” (1817), showing manuscript titling along spine. Courtesy NYU Special Collections.
Title-page of book with ownership inscription.
Ownership inscription on title-page of “Private memoirs” (1817). Courtesy NYU Special Collections. 
Inside cover of book showing ownership inscription.
Ownership inscription on front paste-down of “Private memoirs…” (1817). Courtesy NYU Special Collections.

Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft written by himself

and continued at the time of his death from his diary, notes, and other papers.

Thomas Holcroft

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.

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