Search Results: lorna doone a romance of exmoor by r d 1825 1900

Palala Press, 2015-09-07. hardcover. Acceptable. 98x12x147.

Legare Street Press, 2023. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY, Thomas Y. Crowell [c1893]. Hard Cover. Two volumes in one: vii, 295; iv, 296 p., 18 plates incl. engr. front. & author's engr. portrait on added t.-p. "Drawings by Frank T. Merrill. Engraved by John Andrew & Son." "This work is called a 'romance', because the incidents, characters, time, and scenery are alike romantic. And in shaping this old tale, the Writer neither dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity, or cumber it with the difficulty of an historic novel. And yet he thinks that the outlines are filled in more carefully, and the situations (however simple) more warmly colored and quickened, than a reader would expect to find in what is called a 'legend'. And he knows that any son of Exmoor, chancing on this volume, cannot fail to bring to mind the nurse-tales of his childhood-- the savage deeds of the outlaw Doones in the depth of Bagworthy Forest, the beauty of the hapless maid brought up in the midst of them, the plain John Ridd's… Read More

HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

New York:: Dodd, Mead,, n.d. (ca 1950, c 1943). Hardcover -. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. (sunning to the spine of the dj, as is common with this series, some short closed edgetears) . Illustrated edition. With illustrations from photographs of the Doone Country together with an introductory biographical sketch of the author by Basil Davenport. ages. Although the author considered this a work of romance based on "the nurse tales of his childhood - the savage deeds of the outlaw Doones in the depth of Bagworthy forest, the beauty of the hapless maid brought up in the midst of them. . ." rather than an historical novel, it did include real events and Blackmore was known for the care he took in depicting the speech of his characters. Set in the late 17th century in the area around Somerset and Devon, this was originally published anonymously in three volumes in 1869 - when it reprinted the following year in a one-volume edition, it was immediately successful and has not been out of… Read More

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HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

London : J.M. Dent & Sons, 1966. 1966 Reprint. Softcover. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: 571p. ; 17cm. Subjects: Monmouth's Rebellion, (1685) -- Fiction.

London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1889. Thirtieth edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; viii, 517 p. ; 18 cm. Subject; Historical Novels

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New York: American Publishers Corporation. Hardcover. Octavo; 2 volumes; Fair+; Hardcover; Spine, brown with gold print; Boards half bound with brown leather to spine and corners and marbled paper to boards, wear to spine caps and corners, scuffing to leather with light cracking to leather on spines, paper on boards has slight shelfwear, else clean and strong; Text blocks have gilt top edge, v. 1 has names in ink on front endpapers, cracked front hinge, spine break at p. 144, clean text, v. 2 is clean and tight; 2 vols. (681 pages). 1353811. FP New Rockville Stock.

London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1892. Reprint. Hardcover. Poor copy in gilt-blocked pictorial cloth over beveled boards. Spine band worn. Hinges starting. Text remains clear without blemish. Physical description: viii, 517 pages. Subjects:Monmouth's Rebellion, 1685. Fiction. 19th century fiction.

London : Sampson Low, Marston, 1873. 6th edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description`; viii, 517 pages ; (8�). Subjects; Monmouth's Rebellion, 1685 ; Fiction. Historical fiction. Romance fiction. Exmoor (England) ; Fiction.

London: W. and R. Chambers, No date [circa 1911]. [Romantic Fiction] Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[2]; viii; 634; [2]. Full navy calf, gilt titles to spine, raised bands, pastel marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, gilt 'Church Schools Company Limited' armorial device to upper. Bound by Bumpus. Forty-seven pen and ink illustrations and thirteen colour illustrations including title page in blue ink. Sunderland High School 1938 school prize plate to front endpaper to 'Jean Gray' for 'The Year's work', else internally fine. Toning to spine, wearing to spine hinges and head/tail, some light marking to boards. Near fine.

London & Edinburgh : W. & R. Chambers [1911], 1911. 1st edition in this form. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked, decorated cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 634 pages. Plates in color with a tissue-guard to the frontis. Subject; Monmouth's Rebellion, 1685 - Fiction.

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London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, no date [1893]. [Romantic Novel] FINELY BOUND, the thirty-ninth edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.viii; 517 [5]. Contemporary red full calf by ALLMAN & SON of London, with gilt titles to green label and further gilt tooling to spine. All edges and endpapers marbled. Top and fore edges heavily faded. Boards slightly bowed, with a distinctive heat or damp mark to lower board. Light rubbing and toning to spine. Very good. First published in 1869, 'Lorna Doone' is the ultimate Victorian Romantic Novel, set in Devon in the period between the Restoration and the Monmouth Rebellion. As well the Romeo and Juliet style romance between stolid farmer John Ridd and Gypsy Princess Lorna, the book also brilliantly dramatises the Great Frost of 1683 and the Bloody Assizes of Judge Jeffreys, all while describing the landscape and country ways with an affection worthy of Hardy.

London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1893. [Romantic fiction] FINELY BOUND. Three volume edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[18] 343 [3]; pp.[10] 361 [3]; pp.[8] 358 [2]. Green half calf, blue and gilt flowered paper over boards and endpapers, gilt titles and decorations to spine, gilt ruling to boards, top edge gilt; others untrimmed, brown ribbon bookmark in all. All internally clean, toning to spines, rubbing to all edges, more so to volume one, wearing to spine edges. A very good set. First published in 1869, 'Lorna Doone' is the ultimate Victorian Romantic Novel, set in Devon in the period between the Restoration and the Monmouth Rebellion. As well the Romeo and Juliet style romance between stolid farmer John Ridd and Gypsy Princess Lorna, the book also brilliantly dramatises the Great Frost of 1683 and the Bloody Assizes of Judge Jeffreys, all while describing the landscape and country ways with an affection worthy of Hardy.