In Two Volumes, Volume I. Illustrated edition. Red clothbound book with gilt lettering on front board and spine. Fraying cloth, exposed sewing at hinge, and pencil writings within. Published in the span of three volumes in 1869, this romance recounts the story of John Ridd, a farmer who, in seventeen century England, courts Lorna, a woman who was kidnapped as a baby by the outlawed Doones.