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Presentation copy of Perlycross, inscribed by him ("I hope you like this book / R.D. Blackmore / Aug. 1897") on the title page.465pp 8vo, blue boards with gilt lettering, with the bookplate of Ralph M. Ward on the inside front cover, London, 1894.

Blackmore's most famous novel, Lorna Doone had appeared twenty years earlier. Like Lorna Doone, this romantic novel is set in Devon, opening with the line "In the year 1835, the Rev. Philip Penniloe was Curate-in-charge of Perlycross, a village in the valley of the Blackdown Range."A fresh, clean copy, many pages uncut.

BLACKMORE,, Richard Doddridge 1825-1900. Novelist; author of Lorna Doone Stock Code: AU5511