TOLKIEN, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel]. The Hobbit. Or There and Back Again. Illustrations by Eric Fraser. London: Folio Society, 1979. 8vo, 246pp. Red quarter-leather decoratively stamped in gold foil with maroon cloth decoratively stamped in matching gold foil. Illustrated map endpapers; two full-page b&w plates and illustrated chapter-headings. A fine copy in original cardboard slipcase (light edgewear).

First Fraser-illustrated edition. Following the success of the illustrated edition of The Lord of the Rings that had been published two years earlier, the Folio Society had illustrator Eric Fraser, who had re-drawn Queen Margrethe II of Denmark’s illustrations for the previous set, return to create this wonderful, matching edition of Bilbo’s tale.