The Lord of the Rings — Alan Lee Illustrated 2014 Edition in Original Slipcase

The illustrated 60th-anniversary one-volume edition

The Lord of the Rings. HarperCollins, London, 2014. Illustrated by Alan Lee. The one-volume 60th-anniversary slipcased edition. ISBN 978-0-00-752554-6.

The edition brings together all three parts of Tolkien’s novel with fifty watercolour paintings by Alan Lee, freshly scanned from the originals. It includes a three-page folding frontispiece, a ribbon marker and the maps printed in two colours on the endpapers. The text follows the corrected 50th-anniversary edition.

The blue cloth spine is lettered and decorated in gilt. Alan Lee’s landscape extends across the illustrated boards. The publisher’s shaped transparent slipcase protects the volume while leaving the cover artwork visible. This is the individual copy shown in the photographs, distinct from the other 2014 example in our catalogue.

Condition and contents

The original slipcase is present. The blue cloth and pictorial boards appear clean and bright in the photographs. The open views show the title page, 2014 publication statement, folding frontispiece, several colour plates and the map endpapers. Light handling marks and reflections are visible on the clear slipcase. The photographs do not establish an individual impression statement, so this copy is not described as a first printing.

A complete, attractively presented Alan Lee illustrated Lord of the Rings in its publisher’s transparent slipcase.

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