Ownership names in ink on title page of Jane Dalton 1810 and William Cook, 1862.

Jane Dalton, (1742-1817), collector of botanical books and translator. Around 1766 she became the ward of her first cousin Daniel Malthus, father of Thomas Malthus, and lived with the family until 1768.
In 1773 she was described by Richard Graves in his poem as the character of "Delia".
In 1788 she lived in Paris, and corresponded with Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, director of the Paris Jardin Botanique, and she translated his novel, "Paul et Virginie" into English, publishing it as "Paul and Mary; An Indian Story" in 1789, anonymously.

Her talent for landscape design was noted by a contemporary, "Everyone consulted her when they had gardens to improve". [Wikipedia]