Lorna Doone: a romance of Exmoor / by R.D. Blackmore ; with coloured illustrations specially prepared for this work ; landscapes by Charles E. Brittan ; figure subjects by Charles E. Brock. Dulverton edition.
Richard Doddridge Blackmore (Longworth 1825 - Teddington 1900)
Category
Books
Date
1913
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3225712.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
Third [Dulverton] edition. ix, [1], 520 p., [16] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm. Priced in pencil: 10/6. Loose insert: folded news article, 'Three great revelatios on the current crisis' and address by David Davidson, 1931, Morning Post. Provenance: inscribed "Airmyne with love from Isby Christmas 1913 [i.e [i.e. Airmyne Catherine Harpur Crewe (1884-1958)] perhaps from her sister, Winifred Isabel Harpur Crewe (b. 1879)]. Binding: publisher's blue cloth, black lettering and ornament, centrepieces plate overlay, gold on spine.
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of CTT in 1985 with an endowment provided by the NHMF.
Makers and roles
Richard Doddridge Blackmore (Longworth 1825 - Teddington 1900) Charles E. Brittan Charles Edmund Brock (Cambridge 1870 - Cambridge 1938)