THE COLLECTION OF A GEORGIAN WOMAN READER
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.
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London: Printed for T. Becket, 81, Pall Mall., 1805.
Eton College.
Ownership inscription on title-page: Maria Eleanora Giffard (Nerquis) 1807. Contemporary light blue paper over stiff card boards; spine covered in cream paper; printed spine label; deckled edges.
First edition.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831.
Horden House Rare Books, Sydney.
Eliza Giffard. Two volumes, quarto, with two large folding engraved maps, one double page map, and 23 plates. Bound in original plain boards, rebacked. Covers of both volumes inscribed ‘Captain Beechey’s Voyage’, and volume number, in Giffard’s hand.
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 four volumes
London: Printed at the Minerva Press, for A.K. Newman and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1818.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Inscribed “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire” on front paste-downs. Retains original paper publishers’ bindings. Title handwritten on spine by Elizabeth Giffard.
In three volumes
London: Published by Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row, and John Cumming, Dublin, 1818.
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Inscribed ‘Eliza Giffard (Nerquis Flintshire)’ on title pages ad ‘Eliza Giffard’ on front pastedowns. Retains original publishers’ bindings.
In four volumes
London: Printed at the Minerva Press, for A.K. Newman and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1818.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Inscribed ‘Eliza Giffard Nerquis’ on front pastedowns. Retains original publishers’ boards.
In three volumes
London: Printed at the Minerva Press, for A.K Newman and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1817.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Inscribed, ‘Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire’ on front pastedowns. Retains original paper publishers’ bindings.
In four volumes
London: Printed at the Minerva Press, for A.K. Newman and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1817.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Inscribed “Eliza Giffard” on front pastedown, and “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire” on title pages. Retains original paper publishers’ bindings.
In two volumes
London: Printed at the Minerva-Press, for Lane, Newman and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1805.
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Inscribed “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire” on front paste-downs and on title pages. Retains original publishers’ bindings.
In two volumes
London: Printed at the Minerva-Press, for Lane, Newman and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1805.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Inscribed, Eliza Giffard Nerquis, Flintshire, on front pastedowns and on title pages. In original publishers’ bindings.
London: Printed at the Minerva-Press for Lane and Newman, Leadenhall-Street, 1803.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Inscribed, Eliza Giffard – Nerquis Flintshire, on title pages. Volumes 1 and 4 dated ‘1807’. In original paper publishers’ bindings.
[Mrs. Thicknesse?]
In three volumes
London: H. Colburn, 1829.
New York University, Fales Library & Special Collections
Fales Brit copy with bookseller ticket for Poole & Harding, Chester, on front inner pastedown. No ownership inscription.
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In two volumes.
First edition
London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1828.
New York University. Special Collections. Fales Library.
Inscribed: “Eliza Giffard Nerquis” on front paste-downs of both volumes, and “Eliza Giffard” on title-pages. Bound in original publishers’ blue paper boards, drab paper spines. Printed paper spine labels with titles and volume numbers. Manuscript ink titling and volume numbers in Giffard’s hand at head of spines, above labels. Twelve page publisher’s advertisements, dated December 1828, in front of volume 1. Evidence of printer’s waste at hinges of both volumes.
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