Isabella Ibbetson | "The birds of Great Britain and their eggs", watercolour drawings after Lewin, c.1800

Isabella Ibbetson

"The birds of Great Britain and their eggs", copied by Isabella G. Ibbetson from W. Lewen [sic]. c.1800

2 volumes, folio (370 x 225mm.), 93 watercolour drawings after William Lewin (watermarks 1799), manuscript descriptions, contemporary tree calf, edges gilt, bindings rebacked retaining original spine

Isabella Grace Ibbetson (1745-1860) was the daughter of Henry Ibbetson and wife of Cuthbert Ibbetson. She is not recorded in Christine Jackson’s Dictionary of Bird Illustrators, which notes only a John Ibbetson of Denton Park, Otley, who was active at the same time.

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Henry Walter James, bookplate