First edition. Quarto. Publisher’s grey cloth, lettered and decorated in blue. A very good copy, a couple of stains to the covers, including an ink stain to the upper cover.
A beautifully illustrated illustrated volume of Fairy Poetry, notable for including the first published illustration of any of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works, with the colour plate “And The Padding Feet Of Many Gnomes A-coming” illustrating his poem Goblin Feet.
The Book Of Fairy Poetry
Author
J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher
London: Longmans
Date
1920