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17 May, 2023
2023-5-17 6:36:10 PM UTC
1000 copies were printed for each edition.

[source: an email from Marquette]
17 May, 2023
2023-5-17 6:44:37 PM UTC
I can confirm the 1000 copies of each.

Also, they still have about 100 copies of the paperback available for sale, but the website is turned off while they are transitioning. It should be up again soon, hang in there!
17 May, 2023
2023-5-17 8:34:22 PM UTC
Thanks for that, both of you. Another thing I’m reading, is that people are saying the softcover is the second edition. Is that purely because of the Simon Tolkien extra? Would that actually make it a second or just the paper version of the hardcover only? Or are there any other additions?
17 May, 2023
2023-5-17 8:48:49 PM UTC
The publisher themselves call it the second edition. The new material in this edition is solely the Simon Tolkien foreword - which is the speech that he gave at the opening of the exhibition, by the way.

Even if they hadn't added any new content, I would still call the format change from hardcover to paperback to be a new edition. When a title is simultaneously released in hardcover and paperback (not for Tolkien that I am aware of, but I've seen it happen), those are considered separate editions - just that, in this hypothetical case, there would not be priority in release date, but still collectors seem to always favor the more durable edition.

I don't expect this would ever happen but if they reprinted the paperback again without further textual changes, that would be the second printing of the second edition.
17 May, 2023
2023-5-17 9:09:56 PM UTC

Urulókë wrote:

When a title is simultaneously released in hardcover and paperback (not for Tolkien that I am aware of, but I've seen it happen

Tree and Leaf 1964?
17 May, 2023
2023-5-17 10:17:05 PM UTC
Thanks, Urolókë.
17 May, 2023
2023-5-17 11:46:15 PM UTC

remy wrote:

Urulókë wrote:

When a title is simultaneously released in hardcover and paperback (not for Tolkien that I am aware of, but I've seen it happen

Tree and Leaf 1964?

Aha, yes you are right! I had forgotten about that. There are some differences (not identical sheets) for those two, but they came out on the same day.
18 May, 2023
2023-5-18 4:11:45 PM UTC

Urulókë wrote:

I can confirm the 1000 copies of each.

Also, they still have about 100 copies of the paperback available for sale, but the website is turned off while they are transitioning. It should be up again soon, hang in there!

:’) I’ll be on it this time.
6 Sep, 2023
2023-9-6 4:29:54 AM UTC
These are available for sale again. Get ’em while the gettin’s good!

https://shophaggerty.com/product/j-r-r-tolkien-the-art-of-the-manuscript-catalog-softcover-second-edition/
6 Sep, 2023
2023-9-6 5:19:32 AM UTC
Thanks Philomythos I just grabbed one.
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