155. Tolkien (J.R.R.).- Sweet (Henry, editor ) Extracts from Alfred’s Orosius, second edition, J.R.R.Tolkien’s copy with his signature in pencil on front free endpaper and a few annotations to text at beginning and library book-label on front pastedown, text in Old English and Latin, upper hinge weak, original cloth-backed printed boards, browned and a little rubbed, upper board slightly stained at foot, 8vo, Oxford, 1893.
est. £750 – £1000
Tolkien was a philologist and authority on Anglo-Saxon literature and Old English. He was professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1928-1945 and during this time created most of the Middle Earth mythology and languages which provide the background to his fictional works.