Alan Lee bibliography ?
26 May
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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
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.
Some of Non Tolkien titles illustrated by Alan Lee I have, what I can say is all of them have absolutely outstanding watercolours inside.

Oh, wow. I'd love an ordinary edition of that, even without the illustrations and the upmarket Folio trappings
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