Links to Articles
Publishing The Lord of the Rings
V The First Impression of RotK
VI The First Boxed Edition
VII The Readers Union Edition
VIII The First Deluxe Edition
IX Printing and Binding LotR
XIV LotR: A Bibliography
XV LotR: A Bibliography of Slipcases
The History of Middle-earth series
Other Articles
Christopher Tolkien Bibliography
I Think I've Got A Hobbit
Missing Images
Nasty Tricksy Hobbits
Printing and Binding The Hobbit
Songs for the Philologists
The Princess Hobbit
-- Letter from J. R. R. Tolkien
-- Gandalf: Not 'Magician' but 'Wizard'
-- Visions of Gollum
-- Of Smaug and the Jabberwock
-- Magazine Gallery
Tolkien Calendars
Tolkien the Esperantist?
Tolkien's Languages and Alphabets
Unpublished Manuscript Found?
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Text on the lower part of page 49. Third state. Damaged text. Signature mark '4' present. This is the latest state of the text. The lines of text are sagging or stepping down even more noticeably than in theecond state. A figure '4' has appeared in the lower left hand corner of the page. J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography by Wayne G. Hammond states that this is the earliest variant, not the latest. This statement was based on the assumption that the damaged text would have been picked up by the printers and corrected. This was not the case - all later impressions included the damaged text, although the signature mark was removed after the second impression. Wayne noted this misinterpretation in issue 11 of The Tolkien Collector magazine. |
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