THE COLLECTION OF A GEORGIAN WOMAN READER
London: Sold by G. Nicol, Pall-Mall; and J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1793.
Silent World Foundation Library
Subscriber’s copy, inscribed on title-page: “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire 1807”, and lettered in another hand on the cover “Mrs. Giffard”. Note: subscriber’s list [p.xi] lists both ‘Mrs. Gifford, Nerquis’ and ‘Miss Gifford’.
Third edition.
London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1827.
Private collection.
Volume 1 only. Inscribed on front free endpaper: “Eliza Giffard Nerquis”. Bound in polished calf with double gilt fillets on front and rear covers, and black double fillets with rosette motif at corners inside gilt. Spine with four raised bacnds, gilt decorations. Red morocco labels “Keppel’s Narrative” and “Vol. I” below first and third bands respectively. Red marbled endpapers. No evidence of mss. inscription on spine.
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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