Description
A first edition, first printing of ‘A Tolkien Bestiary; by David Day, published by Mitchell Beazley Publishers, London in 1979. A very good book free from internal inscriptions, boards bound in publisher’s original beige cloth with green titling to the spine and blind-stamped title to front board, the text block browning with minor spotting. In a very good unclipped wrapper, dulling to the spine, chipping to spine tips and front and rear knuckle folds – browning to the spine. Jacket design by Ian Miller.
Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white by Ian Miller, Michael Foreman, Allan Curless, Lidia Postma, John Blanche, Pauline Martin, Sue Porter, Linda Garland, Victor Ambrus, John Davis and Jaroslav Bradac.