c1900 Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor

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Illustrated, Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

With the original glassine wrapper and a cardboard case. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and six plates. Collated complete. A historical romance novel first published in three volumes in 1869, set in the late seventeenth century in Devon and Somerset. A notorious Doone clan, once nobles and now outlaws, murdered John's father. Battling his desire for revenge, John grows into a respectable farmer who cares well for his mother and sisters. One day he meets Lorna by accident and falls hopelessly in love before discovering that she is the granddaughter of Sir Ensor, Lord of the Doones. Written by Richard Doddridge Blackmore, an English writer considered one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century.