TolkienBooks.net
   An Illustrated Tolkien Bibliography

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 1925
Search the Site
 Advanced Search

Links to Bibliography Pages

The Bibliography

1910-1937 - The Early Years

1910-1924

Sir Gawain & the Green Knight

1925-1937

Beowulf: The Monsters & the Critics

Back to previous page Record Number: 12100
   
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 1925Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Edited by J.R.R. Tolkien and E.V. Gordon.
1st Edition, 1st Impression 1925.
Oxford University Press.
London.
ISBN: N/A.
Hardback in dustwrapper.
Frontispiece - The Lady of the Castle visits Sir Gawain.
Hammond Page Ref.: p.285.

Notes
2,500 copies printed.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a scholarly edition of the Middle English romance. Tolkien was responsible for the glossary and for the text of the poem, while Gordon produced the majority of the accompanying notes.

Page edges untrimmed.

Stamped ornament and border on upper board are in gilt.

Logo present on spine of binding.

Variants have been seen both with and without tissue guards over the plates.

A (later?) variant has been seen with adverts at the rear dated August 1925.

 

If you are looking for secondhand or out-of-print books then ABEbooks may be able to help.
Use the search box below to get yourself going.

Find over 80 million new, used, rare and out-of-print books.
Author:  Attributes: 

First Edition
Signed
Dust Jacket

Title: 
Keyword:  Binding: 

Any Binding
Hard Cover
Soft Cover

ISBN: 
 
Text © TolkienBooks.net 2003-2013 --- Images remain copyright of the respective publishers