Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose
( J.R.R. TOLKIEN ) SISAM, ed., Kenneth
Edited by Kenneth Sisam. [With Glossary by J.R.R. Tolkien.]
IN FULL MOROCCO WITH TOLKIEN GLOSSARY
Published: Clarendon Press Oxford, [1955]
Stock code: 46049
Price: £486.00
8vo., on laid paper; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, in custom-made board slip-case with patterned lining.
Sisam's classic compendium was first issued in 1921; some copies published after 1922 include Tolkien's Middle English Vocabulary, itself first published in that year. Some, but by no means all, copies of later impressions also include the Glossary. See Hammond A1, B3.