It was purchased as a gift. A beautifully bound book.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
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For more than half a century readers have journeyed alongside Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit, and his nephew Frodo inThe Lord of the Rings.
Bilbo Baggins is a reasonably typical hobbit: fond of sleeping, eating, drinking, parties and presents. However, it is his destiny to travel to the dwarflands in the east, to help slay the dragon Smaug. His quest takes him through enchanted forests, spiders’ lairs, and under the Misty Mountains, where he comes across the vile Gollum, and tricks him out of his ’Precious’ - a ring that makes its bearer invisible, and wields a terrible power of its own.
This edition is bound in parchment cloth blocked in gold, with an inset label showing Smaug the dragon. It contains 19 black-and-white illustrations by the great Eric Fraser, and endpapers printed in red and black ink, showing Thrór’s Map and Wilderland.
‘One of the best children’s stories of the century’
- W. H. Auden
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Beautiful book
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
This made a great gift!
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
👍 loved it
Quality: 5
Absolutely gorgeous book! The colors and illustrations and paper quality- everything superseded my expectations.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
The cover is really beautiful and I like the illustrations. In my opinion it's too much expensive because there aren't enough illustrations and the are too small and the slipcase has a poor quality. Besides the golden parts on the cover are a little ruined.
Quality: 3
Value for money: 2
Awesome book! something that this household will treasure!
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Excellent quality!
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Wonderful quality and fantastic illustrations
Quality: 5
Value for money: 4
Beautifully presented with beautiful illustrations definitely a collectors piece perfect addition to his already started set of books.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
The book is beautiful and a pleasure to hold in this era of online device reading.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Beautiful book!
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
So pleased with my purchase.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
What can I say? Perfection.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
The volume was exquisitely crafted.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Lovely quality, a pleasure to read
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Wonderful edition. The illustrations reminded me of what it was like to encounter this book as a child and complimented the text wonderfully.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
One of my all time favourite books and this edition is just beautiful, its one of those books where the photos simply don't do it justice, so much nicer in hand
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
One of my favourite books
Quality: 5
Value for money: 3
Intimately formatted lavishly detailed, it conveys a precious story with the reverence it deserves.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5