Folio Society, 44 volumes
Including Tolkien, J.R.R.
Estimate: £700 - £900
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
[The Lord of the Rings]. London, 1977. 3 volumes, 8vo, grey quarter calf gilt, slipcase; idem. The Hobbit. The Hobbit, or there and back again. London, 1976. 8vo, brown quarter calf gilt, slipcase;
Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Prince. London, 1970. 8vo, blue satin embossed with silver and gold, slipcase;
Einhard the Frank. The Life of Charlemagne. London, 1970. 8vo, Japanese vellum gilt, slipcase;
Walpole, Horace. The Castle of Otranto. London, 1976. 8vo, quarter cloth gilt, slipcase;
Graves, Robert. The Greek Myths. London, 1996. Brown quarter morocco gilt, slipcase;
Homer. The Iliad. London, 1996. Red quarter morocco gilt, slipcase; idem. The Odyssey. London, 1998. Green quarter morocco gilt, slipcase;
Barber, Richard, editor. British Myths & Legends. London, 1998. Brown quarter morocco gilt, slipcase;
Magnusson, Magnus, editor. The Icelandic Sagas. London, 1999. Dark blue quarter morocco gilt, slipcase;
Radice, William, editor. Myths + Legends of India. London, 2001. Blue quarter morocco gilt, slipcase;
Keats, John. The Complete Poems. London, 2001. Green quarter morocco gilt, slipcase;
Shakespeare, William. 17 volumes of plays, each 8vo, 12 including slipcases;
and 13 others, comprising American, Russian, English, French, Japanese and Irish Short Stories; A Man of Singular Virtue; The Private Lives of the Tudor Monarchs; Medieval People; Perrault's Fairy Tales; Grimm's Fairy Tales; Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales; Queen Victoria Our Life in the Highlands (44)