The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. Illustrated

by Alan Lee by J. R R. Tolkien, Alan Lee

£3,500 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

Signed

London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1997. Children's Illustrated SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, First Alan Lee Illustrated Edition. Small quarto 26 x 20cm , pp.xii; 289. With 26 full-page coloured illustrations and numerous in-text drawings. Number 574 of just 600 copies SIGNED by the artist in black ink to the limitation page. Publisher's burgundy quarto morocco, with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to matching cloth over boards. All edges gilt, with

• Binding: Leather

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