Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor

New York: The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf, 1943. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Austen, John. Lacks slipcase and one color plate (meant to face p. 272, entitled There Were But Six). Spine and edges faded. 1943 Hard Cover. xv, [1], 549 pp. 8vo. Blue-green cloth, gilt titles, brown decorations, color frontispiece and plates, and black-and-white illustrations, by John Austen. Introduction by John T. Winterich, preface by author. Blackmore's classic, originally published in 1869, is 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.