Black leather spine with gilt title. Maroon cloth boards.

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The Black Douglas is a historical fantasy novel by Scottish author Samuel Rutherford Crockett published in 1899, featuring the historical figures William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas ( “Black Douglas”) and Gilles de Retz (“Bluebeard”), though in reality they never met. It is set in Scotland and France in the fifteenth century and blends history with supernatural elements. The novel is cited as an influence for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien credits him as an
influence on his werewolf-fight scenes: "the episode of the 'wargs' (I believe) is in part derived from a scene in S.R. Crockett’s The Black Douglas, probably his best romance and anyway one that deeply impressed me in school-days.

Samuel Rutherford Crockett was a best-selling novelist in his day, and The Black Douglas was one of his most famous.