English & Medieval Studies Presented to J R R Tolkien on his 70th Birthday 1962

English and Medieval Studies Presented to J R R Tolkien on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday

edited by Norman Davies and C L Wrenn

with dedicatory verses by W. H. Auden

Pub. George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1962. 

First edition

Hardback in unclipped dustjacket.

339 pages, illustrated.

Professor J. R. R. Tolkien retired in 1959 from the Merton Professorship of English language and Literature in the University of Oxford, which he had held since 1945. Before that he had been Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford and Professor of the English Language in the University of Leeds. In recognition of the great contributions to English philology and medieval literature that he made over this long period, twenty-two former pupils, friends and colleagues from the UK and abroad combined to offer him a volume of studies in honour of his seventieth birthday in 1962.

Very good condition; private library bookplate (David Dumville,  British medievalist) to endpaper; score-mark to titlepage (hard to photograph - it's very nearly but not quite a tear). Otherwise clean internally.