TCG Letter #1356

¹ From Maggs Bros. Ltd. 1991a/b: A Collection of Philiological (sic) and Literary Offprints from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Working Library. Being three hundred and ninety-two items, all with Tolkien’s library label, a large proportion inscribed to him by the respective authors, and a number additionally annotated by Tolkien himself. 1883 to 1972. £5000 - Sotheby’s 1995: 356 TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) A COLLECTION OF PHILIOLOGICAL (sic) AND LITERARY OFFPRINTS FROM THE AUTHOR’S WORKING LIBRARY, all with Tolkien’s library label, a large number inscribed to him by respective authors (including A.C. Baugh, A.J. Bliss, Norman Davis, Henry Sweet, C.L. Wrenn and others), 56 WORKS ADDITIONALLY ANNOTATED BY TOLKIEN, a total of 392 offprints, 1883 to 1972 [chiefly 1940s and 1950s] The varied subject matter chiefly concerns philological problems of Early and Middle English, with many references to the extant texts, many (including Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, etc) re-edited and re-translated by Tolkien himself. Pamphlets such as H.E. Allen’s Influence of Superstition on Vocabulary (1935) and R.G. Haliburton’s Survival of Dwarf Races in the New World (1894) can be seen to relate not only to Tolkien’s
academic work, but also to his popular fiction.12 £1,000–1,500 (Sotheby’s 1995, unpaginated) ↩