The Lord of the Rings — Alan Lee Illustrated Slipcased Edition, 2014

Alan Lee’s 60th Anniversary Illustrated Edition

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

Alan Lee’s fifty watercolour paintings were newly scanned from the originals for this edition, allowing their colour and detail to be reproduced afresh. The text incorporates the corrections of the 50th-anniversary edition. The book also includes a three-page folding frontispiece, Tolkien’s maps printed in two colours on the endpapers, and a ribbon marker.

Blue cloth covers the spine, lettered and decorated in gold with Tolkien’s ring device and the titles of the three parts. Alan Lee’s landscape illustration fills the boards. The original transparent, shaped slipcase leaves the artwork visible while protecting the book; the case is shown from all sides before the book is removed in the photographs.

Condition

The illustrated boards, blue cloth spine and text block present cleanly in the photographs. The transparent slipcase is present and shows light handling marks and reflections visible in the images. The folding frontispiece, title page, endpapers and a selection of Alan Lee’s illustrations are photographed. This copy’s individual impression statement has not been confirmed.

A handsome Alan Lee illustrated Lord of the Rings, complete with its original transparent presentation slipcase.

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