#nh0004 - Reports Of The Research Committee Of The Society Of Antiquaries Of London No Ix – 950 GBP

Report On The Excavation Of The Prehistoric, Roman, And Post Roman Site On Lydney Park, Gloucestershire Oxford University Press 1932.
Contains: "The Name Nodens" by Prof J R R Tolkien.

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Reports Of The Research Committee Of The Society Of Antiquaries Of London No Ix.
Report On The Excavation Of The Prehistoric, Roman, And Post Roman Site On Lydney Park, Gloucestershire Oxford University Press 1932.
The Name Nodens - By Prof J R R Tolkien

Oversized Paper Wraps Show A Little Edgewear As Expected. Base Of Spine Worn As Per Photo.
Internally Vg Or Better All Inserts Complete. Scarce Tolkien Academia.

Illustrated with plates, text figures and folding maps and plans.

First edition, first impression of one of tolkien's earliest and scarcest publications.
He contributed part I of the appendix, a discussion of the origin of the name Nodens, which appears in three inscriptions discovered at the site.

A scarce early Tolkien contribution, bringing his philological expertise to the archaeological discoveries at Lydney Park.

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