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8vo. Limited edition. #1662 of 1750 numbered copies bound by Smith Settle in quarter Wassa goatskin with hand-woven Indian silk sides. Calligraphy by John Andrew. Top edge gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Map endpapers. In matching goatskin-covered slipcase with scalloped edge, gilt. Illustrations by Francis Mosley. First published by George Allen & Unwin in 1977 and by The Folio Society in 1997, this limited edition is uniform with The Lord of the Rings edition issued in 2001-2. A beautiful production.

The Silmarillion is a collection of mythopoeic stories by the English writer J.R.R. Tolkien, edited and published posthumously by his son, Christopher Tolkien, in 1977, with assistance from fantasy fiction writer Guy Gavriel Kay. It is the primary source of Middle-earth's ancient history and provides a background to his other works, including 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.'