Flowers drawn and painted after nature, in India / By Mrs. James Cookson.

[London] : [publisher not identified], [c.1835]

31 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : all color illustrations ; (folio)

Plates include frontispiece

Lithographs, colored by hand

Without text.

Most plates have watermarks dated 1834.

Most likely Marianne Cookson, wife of Colonel James Cookson of Neasham Park, Co. Durham. Cookson served with the 80th Regiment Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers) from 1797 to 1822. The regiment was in India from 1802 to 1817 and the Cookson's eldest son James was born in India in 1816. See The magnificent botanical library of the Stiftung fur Botanik ... sold by auction by Sotheby & Co (London, 1976), lot. 150 and corrigenda vol. 3, p. 196.

Copy 1 Binding: green leather (rebacked) with gilt tooling including a small stamp of a turban beneath the word 'East' in nasta'liq script. Inscription on flyleaf 'To my dear mother from her affectionate daughter Marianne Cookson, Neasham Park, April 1835'. Another presentation copy with identical binding was sold at Sotheby's in 1976 inscribed 'The Hon. Arthur Cole with Colonel and Mrs James Cookson's very kind regards'.