Catharine Parr Traill | Canadian wild flowers, Montreal, 1869, contemporary morocco gilt

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Lot 44 | Catharine Parr Traill | Canadian wild flowers, Montreal, 1869, contemporary morocco gilt
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£ 800 – 1 800
Books from the Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven

Agnes Fitzgibbon—Catharine Parr Traill

Canadian wild flowers. Montreal: John Lovell, 1869

4to (355 x 263mm.), hand-coloured lithographed title-page, dedication, 10 hand-coloured lithographed plates, contemporary morocco gilt by Copp, Clark & Co., Toronto, spine with raised bands in six compartments, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, some spotting and browning, extremities slightly rubbed

Catherine Parr Traill (1802-1899) was an English-Canadian naturalist who was the author of 24 books on topics including natural history, especially botanical studies. She collected plants and is known as a pioneer for female botanists. She and her sisters Agnes Strickland, Jane Margaret Strickland, Susanna Moodie, and Elisabeth Strickland formed a noteworthy early group of women authors. Agnes Fitzgibbon (1833-1913) was Traill's niece, a prolific natural history artist.

This work attracted 500 subscriptions, a remarkable number at the time. It went through four editions.
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