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Meriel of the Moors

R[obert] E[rnest] Vernède

Robert Vernède (1875-1917) was an English First World War poet and novelist. This novel was first published in 1906 by Alston Rivers.

Edwin Jack acknowledged the sketch of the jacket design on 25th April 1917 and suggested some changes:

Thanks for design for Meriel of the Moors. It will, we think, make an excellent wrapper. We are content to leave the scheme of colour to your instinct but suggest that it might be more effective if the lady was dressed in dark green. Please note the remarks on the sketch. You could drop the lettering at the top somewhat to shorten the design and we should be very much obliged if you would write in or print in the sentence at the foot. Keep the words Yorkshire Observer small.

The text about the Yorkshire Observer is not present on the final design, so was presumably removed when the jacket was prepared for printing.




First edition, thus

Bibliography code: NEL-17.6

Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons

Series: Nelson's Fiction Library MD 504

Year: [1917]

Format: 12mo

Pages: vi, 7-288

Binding: Red decorated cloth. Fan-shaped designs below a flower and leaf on top and bottom of front boards in black. Title, author, publisher and two fan designs on spine

Size: 160 x 111 mm

Dust jacket signed: not signed

Internal illustrations: none

Price: 1 shilling 3 pence

Printing history: not stated

Image of dust jacket

Dust jacket (click to enlarge)


Printed by: Printed in Great Britain. Imprimerie Nelson, Edimbourg, Ecosse

Notes: The red bar behind the woman is unlike Blampied, so the design may have been modified by the publisher and the signature was lost when they transferred only the main part of the drawing. The drawing on the rear of the jacket is by Bernard Partridge, a cartoonist for Punch magazine.