Author: R. D. Blackmore Title: Lorna Doone: A Romance of Ermoor
Description: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company , 1910. Cloth. Dulverton edition of this romance by Richard D. Blackmore featuring coloured plates. A romance by Richard Doddridge Blackmore, one of the most famous English novelists of the nineteenth century. Originally published in 1869 in a limited edition of five hundred copies in three volumes, it received critical success upon the publication of the first uniform edition in one volume the following year. The plot is based on a group of historical characters in a late seventeenth century Devon and Somerset. This copy is a Dulverton edition illustrated with coloured plates, landscapes, and figure subjects by Charles E Brittan and Charles E Brock. In the original publisher's pictorial binding with decorative gilt and design to spine and boards, black and white illustration pasted to front board. Internally, firmly bound. Odd minor spotting scattered to occasional leaf, otherwise pages generally bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Various. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: lorna doone illustrated dulverton editions romance illustrated Various
Price: GBP 140.00 = appr. US$ 199.92 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 833A34
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