Nightingale (Florence).- Pratt (Anne) Our Native Songsters, signed presentation inscription "For my dear little god-daughter Ruth with Aunt Florence's very best love. Claydon. October 1890" to endpaper, colour plates, bookplate of Ruth Verney to front pastedown, original pictorial cloth, spine a little rubbed and dulled, light bumping to spine ends and corners, some worming to upper cover, 8vo, [c.1890].

⁂ An excellent association copy inscribed from Nightingale to the daughter of her older sister Parthenope. Frances Parthenope Nightingale (1819-1890) had died 5 months prior to this inscription having suffered for several years from both arthritis and cancer. For the last five years of her life she had required full-time care, overseen by her sister Florence.