NMLP P-034954 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-09

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor

R. D. Blackmore · Sampson Low, Son, & Marston (London) · 1869

The 1869 three-volume London edition is the true first; the book failed commercially in that format and was reissued in a hugely popular one-volume edition in 1870, which is a later, cheaper printing, not the first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-034954 for "Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor" by R. D. Blackmore (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-034954, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).