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The great importance of a religious life considered: to which are added, some morning and evening prayers

William Melmoth

The thirteenth edition.

London: : Printed by T. Maiden, for J. Sewell … and Vernor and Hood …, 1798.

University of Texas, Harry Ransom Center

Inscribed: Eliza Giffard, Nerquis Flintshire, 1807; “A prayer for the new year” mounted on front end paper.

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Histoire des Variations Des Eglises Protestantes.

Jacques Benigne Bossuet

Paris, Guillaume Desprez et Pierre-Guillaume Cavelier, 1747.

In two volumes. 

New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections

SpecCol. c.1 has inscription: “Eliza Giffard Nerquis, 1809, Flintshire”–T.p.

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Title-page of book with ownership inscription
Title-page of “Histoire des variations des eglises protestantes” (1747), showing ownership inscription. Courtesy NYU Special Collections.
Inside cover of book showing armorial bookplate.
Armorial bookplate on front paste-down of “Histoire des variations des eglises protestantes” (1747). Courtesy NYU Special Collections. 
Front cover and spine of leather bound book
Cover and spine of volume 1 of “Histoire des variations des eglises protestantes”. Courtesy NYU Special Collections.

Parsons his Christian directory: being a treatise of holy resolution.

In two parts. Put into modern English. And now made publick, for the instruction of the ignorant; the conviction of the unbelieving; the awakening and reclaiming the vicious; and for confirming the religious in their good purposes.

George Stanhope.

The seventh edition, corrected.

London: Printed for D. Midwinter, W. Innys, A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman, J. Hodges, and J. Rivington, 1742.

University of Texas, Harry Ransom Center Book Collection

Inscribed: Eliza Giffard, Nerquis, Flintshire, 1807; Elizabeth Hyde.

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