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[RATHBONE, Hannah Mary (1798-1878)]. The Poetry of Birds, selected from various authors; with coloured illustrations by a lady. Liverpool: George Smith and Ackermann & Co. of London, 1833.
4° (232 x 184mm). 21 small hand-coloured lithographed plates. Contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, g.e. (joints very slightly rubbed). Provenance: Hannah Rathbone (presentation inscription, dated 1833, to her brother:); Richard Rathbone (bookplate).
A FINE PRESENTATION COPY OF THIS RARE WORK. The front free-endpaper is inscribed by the author to her brother, with a ten-line manuscript poem and dated 12th October 1833. John Audubon was great friend of the Rathbones, visiting their parents home, Green Bank near Liverpool on many occasions during the 1820s. Audubon acknowledged his debt to the family by calling what he mistakenly assumed to be a hitherto undescribed bird the "Rathbone Warbler" (plate LXV in his Birds of America, actually immature Yellow Warbler, Dendroica petechia). Nissen IVB 756 (incorrect collation).
4° (232 x 184mm). 21 small hand-coloured lithographed plates. Contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, g.e. (joints very slightly rubbed). Provenance: Hannah Rathbone (presentation inscription, dated 1833, to her brother:); Richard Rathbone (bookplate).
A FINE PRESENTATION COPY OF THIS RARE WORK. The front free-endpaper is inscribed by the author to her brother, with a ten-line manuscript poem and dated 12th October 1833. John Audubon was great friend of the Rathbones, visiting their parents home, Green Bank near Liverpool on many occasions during the 1820s. Audubon acknowledged his debt to the family by calling what he mistakenly assumed to be a hitherto undescribed bird the "Rathbone Warbler" (plate LXV in his Birds of America, actually immature Yellow Warbler, Dendroica petechia). Nissen IVB 756 (incorrect collation).