How to Contribute

At this stage, the best way to contribute is to help refine the range of impressions published.

  1. For any copies you have, look at the copyright page to establish ISBN, Publisher Edition, and Impression.

  2. Find the entry for your copy on this website using the ISBN, Publisher Edition, and cover image.

  3. See if your impression is outside the range of impressions (or known impressions) given in the entry on this website and, if so, let us know.

This will be most fruitful for those entries where there is a “known” or “possible” impression number although there may be cases where even if we give a definitive first / last impression, we are in error.

The Open Impression Groups page shows just those impression groups for which there are uncertain ranges we’d like help pinning down.

But of course, if you find any other errors, please let us know.

If you have new impression information to contribute, please submit details via the Tolkien Impression Submission Form

If you have any questions or feedback, you can also email info@digitaltolkien.com or join the #books-db channel on our Discord server.

How to Find the Impression Number

Look on the copyright page (usually the other side of the title page).

Ninth Impression 1974; Impression = 9
Second Edition 1983; Impression = 1
Reprinted three times; Impression = 4
This Paperback Edition 1993
39; Impression = 39
This Paperback Edition 2000
3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2; Impression = 2