{"product_id":"the-lord-of-the-rings-1991-centenary-edition","title":"The Lord of the Rings (1991 Centenary Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTOLKIEN, J.R.R.\u003c\/strong\u003e (illustrated by Alan Lee). \u003cem\u003eThe Lord of the Rings.\u003c\/em\u003e London: HarperCollins, 1991.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e4to. Original gilt brown buckram cloth with gilt titling and device to spine and boards. Red satin ribbon marker. Pictorial dust jacket. 1,193 pp. plus appendices and maps. Fifty full-colour plates by Alan Lee throughout. \u003cstrong\u003eCentenary Edition — 23rd Impression.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOf all the illustrated editions that Tolkien's work has attracted over the decades, none has proved more enduring or more widely beloved than this one. Published in 1991 to mark the centenary of Tolkien's birth on the third of January 1892, it brought together for the first time the complete text of \u003cem\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/em\u003e in a single volume with fifty original paintings commissioned from Alan Lee — an artist whose vision of Middle-earth is so thoroughly absorbed into the collective imagination that it has become, for most readers, simply what Tolkien's world looks like.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis edition established Lee as the pre-eminent visual interpreter of the legendarium, a relationship that would extend through his work as conceptual designer on Peter Jackson's films and beyond. This remains the standard by which all subsequent illustrated editions of the work are measured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine in a near fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket\u003c\/strong\u003e. Some very minor markings to the lower corner of the text block, otherwise presenting as new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000449\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"J.R.R. Tolkien","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48749125304563,"sku":"1110002947025","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_31cb0e53-b43b-4f2f-bde8-fa8d2541597c.png?v=1774416118","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-lord-of-the-rings-1991-centenary-edition","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}