Lorna Doone
R. D Blackmore
Hardcover
(Dodd, Mead & Co, March 15, 1920)
ROMANCE. A masterpiece from the Golden Age of book illustration. A bright, clean copy. Not foxed. Dodd,Mead, 1920. 636 pages. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED. ALL SIXTEEN PLATES BRIGHT, PRESENT, AND AFFIXED TO BINDING. ABOUT THE ARTIST: "Rowland Wheelright (1870-1955) Rowland Wheelwright was born in Queensland, Australia in 1870. He studied Art at Herkomer's Academy in Bushey, Hertfordshire. Between 1895 and 1938 he exhibited a total of forty one paintings at the Royal Academy, as well as exhibiting at the Royal Society of British Artists fom various addreses in Bushey, where he lived until his death in 1955. Bibliography: Christopher Wood A Dictionary of Victorian Art".