Bodleian printers sheets for Exhibition book

There's also a photo of the same gentleman, Bodleian Head of Publishing Dr. Samuel Fanous, examining proof sheets of the catalog here.

Thanks for that second pic Aelfwine!

Second photo:
Nope, I don't see those contributor's signatures anywhere...

These are some internal pages of the "Tolkien:" Maker of Middle-earth "edition.

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Aelfwine wrote:
There's also a photo of the same gentleman, Bodleian Head of Publishing Dr. Samuel Fanous, examining proof sheets of the catalog here.

Thanks for that preview. So exciting to anticipate what this book will eventually be like :)

Thanks Tolkieniano! What's the source for these images? I'd like to link back to where they came from if possible.

I'm looking more closely at that first photo of Dr. Fanous with all the stacks and stacks of sheets, and noticed - there are handwritten notes on the top page!

If you look at the sheet he is holding up, the lower left quadrant has what looks like "LO" or a "g" or "9" written on it. The sheet underneath does not have that note, and it is in a different location on the stack of (the same) sheets to his right.

Corrections? Or just approval signoff? You can see how excited I am to finally see the book, though...

I wonder whether those are signature numbers? Or otherwise some sort of lot number for each group of sheets?

FWIW, at 32 pages per sheet (16 per side * 2), the announced 416 page book will have 13 signatures, which is in line with the apparent numbers I see (4, 7, 8, 9)

That's a really good guess! In any event, I am quite looking forward to it.

And per my question to Tolkieniano, I note that those images have been given to amazon to promote the book

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Tolkien - Maker of Middle-earth

Catherine McIlwaine
9781851244850
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (2018-07-25)

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