‘AN ENGLISHWOMAN’. ~ The Last of the Garayes and other Poems by an Englishwoman dedicated to the British Residents at Dinan. Dinan: J.-B. Huart, 1868.
Oblong 4to (230 × 310 mm), pp. [82] including a blank leaf (now loose) after prelims and an errata, plus 5 tinted lithograph plates with tissue guards. Short closed tear to endpaper and foot of title-page, some very light spotting. Contemporary half calf, pebble-grain cloth. Some leaves just loosening at gutter. Spine and corners worn and the boards rubbed, but a good clean copy.
Sole edition of a rare illustrated poetical collection by a so-far unidentified woman of the English community at the Breton town of Dinan. The subscribers list contains 52 names, mainly English and mainly women. The romantic plates are very accomplished but unsigned, save by the printer Mainoë at Nantes. They are captioned with excerpts from the verses. No UK copies located by JISC/COPAC. Worldcat: Columbia and Bn.