Good and evil in the Lord of the Rings by W.H. Auden, uncorrected proof

W.H. Auden. Loose-sheet uncorrected proof, bearing the Oxford 1993 imprint.

Good and Evil in The Lord of the Rings by W.H. Auden. Sixteen pages in A4 loose sheets, printed on single sides of Conqueror paper, with a three-colour front design incorporating the initials W and A and a portrait of Auden. ISBN 0 85455 029 1.

The final page is marked “Uncorrected proof copy”, followed by the author and title. The copy-designation space is blank. This is a loose-sheet proof, not one of the bound lettered copies.

The printed colophon describes an edition of 126 copies, numbered 1–100 and lettered A–Z; this statement does not give the number of proofs. The title and colophon bear 1993. The earlier catalogue associated the publication with the 1992 Tolkien centenary; the precise production date of this proof has not been established.

The sheets appear clean and well preserved in the photographs, with no handwriting visible on the pages shown. The photographs include the title, text pages and proof-marked colophon.

An uncommon proof-state presentation of Auden’s essay, retaining its distinctive illustrated title and explicitly marked proof colophon.

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