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By Gerryt
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Alan Lee bibliography ?

26 May
2025-5-26 3:35:35 PM UTC

Looking for a comprehensive list of books with Alan Lee illustrations, can anyone point me in the right direction ? Including those not Tolkien related
26 May
2025-5-26 3:49:18 PM UTC

Gerryt wrote:

Looking for a comprehensive list of books with Alan Lee illustrations, can anyone point me in the right direction ? Including those not Tolkien related

Not aware of anything, but I have asked Alan if he knows of any such list.
26 May
2025-5-26 3:50:11 PM UTC
Many thanks Trotter
26 May
2025-5-26 4:42:20 PM UTC
Some of Non Tolkien titles illustrated by Alan Lee I have, what I can say is all of them have absolutely outstanding watercolours inside.

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26 May
2025-5-26 6:30:07 PM UTC
The hunt begins :)
26 May
2025-5-26 9:00:00 PM UTC
just saw James from Brewing Books video on The Wanderer, thats an absolutely beautiful edition



27 May
2025-5-27 12:04:33 PM UTC
Oh, wow. I'd love an ordinary edition of that, even without the illustrations and the upmarket Folio trappings
28 May (edited)
2025-5-28 12:40:38 PM UTC
I will try and tidy this up, but Alan replied with a list

Books containing my illustrations might be too broad a category, but here are the main illustrated books, with approximate dates...

  • The Importance of being Earnest, Oscar Wilde - '71
  • The Hand of Ethelberta, Thomas Hardy '71
  • The Golden Book of the Mysterious - Vineyard, '76
  • Once Upon a Time, a collection with other fantasy illustrators - Peacock Press '77
  • Faeries, with Brian Froud - Abrams '78
  • The Mabinogion, Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones - Dragon's Dream '82
  • Castles, with David Day '84
  • Gothic, poems by David Day, '85
  • Merlin Dreams, Peter Dickinson - Gollancz '85
  • The Mirrorstone, Michael Palin and Richard Seymour - Cape '86
  • The Moon's Revenge, Joan Aiken, Cape '87
  • The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien centenary edition, Harper Collins '91
  • Black Ships Before Troy, Rosemary Sutcliff, Frances Lincoln '94
  • Tolkien's Ring, David Day, Harper Collins '95
  • The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien Harper Collins '96
  • The Wanderings of Odysseus, Rosemary Sutcliff, Frances Lincoln '97
  • The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook, Alan Lee, Harper Collins 2005
  • The Children of Hurin, ed Christopher Tolkien, Harper Collins, 2006
  • Tales from the Perilous Realm, JRR Tolkien Harper Collins 2008
  • Shapeshifters, Tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Adrian Mitchell, Quarto 2009
  • Fearie Tales, ed Stephen Jones Jo Fletcher books 2013
  • Beren and Luthien, ed Christopher Tolkien Harper Collins, 2017
  • The Wanderer, Folio Society, trans Michael Alexander, Folio Society 2018
  • Fall of Gondolin, ed Christopher Tolkien Harper Collins 2018
  • Hobbit Sketchbook, Alan Lee, Harper Collins, 2019
  • Unfinished Tales, JRRT, with John Howe and Ted Nasmith, Harper Collins 2020
  • Fall of Numenor, ed Brian Sibley, Harper Collins 2022

I haven't included updated or limited editions for the folio Society etc - these are all (I think) of my first versions of those books
28 May
2025-5-28 3:09:06 PM UTC
Thank you very much Trotter, very useful.
28 May
2025-5-28 3:29:23 PM UTC
Thank you Trotter and to Alan too, that’s very helpful :)
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