PICTURES BY J. R. R. TOLKIEN

First edition, first printing. Original brown cloth with gilt monogram and titles to the upper board and spine, housed in the original slipcase. Square 4to. Colour portrait frontispiece and 48 colour plates with black and white drawings throughout. A very good or better copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth and gilt bright. The contents, with a previous owner's inscription to the front pastedown, covered with two white labels, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the original slipcase that remains firm with a few light marks and indentations, and a small chip to the paper covering at one edge.

Primarily a collection of the illustrations reproduced in the series of six Tolkien calendars issued between 1973 and 1979. Many of the pictures were coloured specifically for the calendars and are now produced here in both the coloured and original un-coloured state. This is an almost complete record of J. R. R. Tolkien's published artwork for which Christopher Tolkien has written both a foreword and detailed notes for each picture.