8vo. [6], ii, 288pp. With half-title. Original publisher's green cloth with gilt title. Heavily sunned at spine and top edge, head and foot of spine rubbed with slight loss, somewhat soiled. With ink inscription to recto of dedication reading 'With best regards to Charlotte Hamilton from Marianne Tallot(?)', otherwise internally clean and crisp.

Caroline Anne Southey, nee Bowles (1786-1854), was an English composer of verse and the second wife of Poet Laureate and Romantic, Robert Southey. The birth-day is a work of autobiographical blank verse, and was the first in which she broke her anonymity.