The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
1991 Illustrated Edition
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston
ISBN-10: 0395595118
ISBN-13: 9780395595114
Hardcover in dust-jacket
1200 pp.
Illustrated by Alan Lee
Hammond Page Ref.: p. 175
Notes
Typeset chiefly as for the HarperCollins One-Volume 1991 Illustrated Edition. On page 12, the final paragraph of the foreword (describing the binding of the 1969 edition) is erroneously retained.
1st Printing: November 12, 1991
2nd Printing: January, 1992
3rd Printing: April, 1994
4th Printing: November, 1994
5th Printing: September, 1996
6th Printing: October, 1997
7th Printing: February, 1998
8th Printing: August, 1999
9th Printing: March, 2000
10th Printing: January, 2001
11th Printing: June, 2001
12th Printing: December, 2001
13th Printing: February, 2002
The copyright page of this edition does not state the print number. An approximate date can be determined by checking the following points:
1st Printing (1991): States ‘1991’ on title page (absent from all other printings), printed in Hong Kong, jacket price states $60.00, full address printed near base of rear jacket flap.
2nd State (1994)*: Printed in Hong Kong, jacket price states “FPT > $60.00“, full address printed near base of rear jacket flap.
3rd State (1994)*: Printed in Hong Kong, jacket price of $65.00, full address printed near base of rear jacket flap.
4th State (1996): Printed in Italy, jacket price of $70.00, no address on rear jacket flap.
5th State (1998)*: Printed in Thailand, jacket price of $70.00, no address on rear jacket flap.
6th State (2001)*: Printed in Singapore, jacket price of $70.00, no address on rear jacket flap.
The runes bordering the dust-jacket read (repeating): ‘THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRANSLATED FROM THE RED BOOK’.
Jacket price: $60.00; $65.00; $70.00 (see above).
*Printed no earlier than this date.
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