LORNA DOONE A ROMANCE OF EXMORE

CLEVELAND: THE BURROWS BROTHERS COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, 1890. CLEVELAND: THE BURROWS BROTHERS COMPANY, PUBLISHERS- M DCCC XC (1890). Leather Binding, embossing at front cover, gold gilt all sides. Very good possibility for restoration, it is a beautiful book. FAIR Much shelf wear, spine is compromise, cracked in the middle from improper handling of old book. Top and bottom of spine, shelf wear, corners bumped, back cover soiled front cover bright, clean text, vibrant/NODJ. Illustrated with many drawings. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is a novel by English author Richard Doddridge Blackmore, published in 1869. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset, particularly around the East Lyn Valley area of Exmoor. In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read.
Blackmore experienced difficulty in finding a publisher, and the novel was first published anonymously in 1869, in a limited three-volume edition of just 500 copies, of which only 300 sold. The following year it was republished in an inexpensive one-volume edition and became a huge critical and financial success. It has never been out of print.
It received acclaim from Blackmore's contemporary, Margaret Oliphant, and as well from later Victorian writers including Robert Louis Stevenson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Thomas Hardy. George Gissing wrote in a letter to his brother Algernon that the novel was 'quite admirable, approaching Scott as closely as anything since the latter'. A favorite among females, it was also popular among male readers, and was chosen by male students at Yale in 1906 as their Favorite novels. (wiki). CLEVELAND: THE BURROWS BROTHERS COMPANY, 1890.
Much shelf wear, spine is compromise, cracked in the middle from improper handling of old book. Top and bottom of spine, shelf wear, corners bumped, back cover soiled front cover bright, clean text, vibrant, many pictures and and illustrations, all bright and clean. Leather Binding, embossing at front cover, gold gilt all sides. Very good possibility for restoration, it is a beautiful book.
EXTRA POSTAGE NEEDED 4.4 lb.