First edition. Octavo. Publisher’s original blue cloth, lettered gilt, in the original printed dustwrapper.
A near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, rubbing to spine ends with a little loss to the head of the spine.
Includes Tolkien’s lecture, ‘English And Welsh’ on Anglo-Saxon, Welsh, Celtic and English philology.
PROVENANCE: From the library of John Ellis-Jones (1930-2023), classical scholar and archaeologist, with his neat ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Ellis-Jones lectured in the Classics department of the University Of Bangor for most of the second half of the twentieth century.
Angles And Britons
Author
J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher
Cardiff: University Of Wales Press
Date
1963