Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. Illustrated., in Two Volumes

516; 565 pp. 8vo. Original red cloth, gilt titles, elaborate gilt decorations on front boards and spines, top edges gilt. A fairly early decoratively bound illustrated edition of Blackmore's classic, which was originally published in 1869. This edition includes the original preface, as well as the preface to the sixth and twentieth editions, along with illustrations by Dr. Charles L. Mitchell and F. Frith & Co., and photogravures by A.W. Elson & Co. 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.