The Lord of The Rings Trilogy. The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of The King. London: G. Allen, 1966. Second Edition, First Impressions. Bound in quarter crimson morocco over cloth boards; spine with raised bands the compartments lettered and tooled in gilt. Preliminary leave margins to the first volume with a few light smudge marks, with preliminary leaves of the second volume lightly creased. Overall a nice bright set, handsomely bound.

The first British hardcover printing of the second edition, published in 1966. 

The most significant edition after the first, containing extensive corrections, revision and additions by the author. These include a new foreword by the author discussing the writing and publishing of The Lord of The Rings, an extended prologue and six appendices plus an index.

“A number of errors and inconsistencies that still remained in the text have been corrected, and an attempt to has been made to provide information on a few points which attentive readers have raised.”

“To have created so enthralling an epic-romance, with its own mythology, with such diversity of scene and character, such imaginative largess in invention and description, and such supernatural meaning underlying the wealth of incident, is a most remarkable feat. Mr. Tolkien is one of those born storytellers who makes his readers as eager as wide-eyed children for more. His style, in prose and verse, is fresh and fluent and equally apt to the expression of unearthly beauty, homely humour, or stark horror.”  (Extract from a review of the first volume in the trilogy which appeared on 20 August, 1954)