Author: R. D. Blackmore
Title: Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
Description: Branches Everywhere, Boots the Chemist, c1930. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated edition of this charming work from Blackmore. Illustrated with frontispiece and fifteen tipped-in colour plates. Collated complete. A romance novel following a group of historical characters in Devon and Somerset which became popular amongst male and female readers alike. Written by Richard Doddridge Blackmore, a prolific English novelist of the nineteenth century remembered for the strong sense of regional setting in his works. Illustrated with landscapes by Charles E. Brittan, an English artist and watercolourist, and figure subjects by Charles Edmund Brock, an English painter, line artist, and book illustrator. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with a tide mark to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting and age toning to the endpapers. Pencil inscription to the front endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: Charles E. Brittan; Charles E. Brock. Very Good .

Keywords: Lorna Doone Romance Exmoor Doone Brittan Brock Charles E. Brittan; Charles E. Brock


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