Lorna Doone : a romance of Exmoor /
Richard Doddridge Blackmore (Longworth 1825 - Teddington 1900)
Category
Books
Date
1908
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3176085
Summary
Bibliographic description
lii, 553, [1] p., plates : ill., 2 maps (fold.) ; 21 cm. Watercolour landscape pasted to second free endpaper, inscribed beneath: Badgworthy Water, Exmoor. Provenance: pictorial bookplate: “Vita. A good book is the best of friends the same today and forever. 1908 Knole”. Loosely inserted card inscribed: "To the bride / From Sir Arthur Nicolson." [i.e. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) from Arthur Nicolson, first Baron Carnock (1849–1928) on the occasion of her marriage, October 1913]. Binding: twentieth-century green morocco; five false bands; gold on spine and fillet border on sides; gold oak motifs on turn-ins; gold lettered on upper board: Vita; gold edges and marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Richard Doddridge Blackmore (Longworth 1825 - Teddington 1900) Henry Snowden Ward (1865 - 1911) Reginald Owen Morris, (1886-1948)