Open Impression Groups

The following impression groups have uncertain impression ranges (first known impression and/or last known impression) that we would like help in filling in. If you have access to copies of these editions (check the ISBN and note these are all UK editions), please check the relevant impression information and let us know via the form linked below if your impression is one we’re missing!

We're starting to put unique identifiers on each impression group to help communicate which one is being talked about. These are of the form #2000a. They should not be treated as persistent identifiers at this stage.

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▹ The Hobbit

▹ The Fellowship of the Ring

▹ The Two Towers

▹ The Return of the King

▹ The Silmarillion

▹ Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth

▹ The Book of Lost Tales, Part I

▹ The Book of Lost Tales, Part II

▹ The Lays of Beleriand

▹ The Shaping of Middle-earth

▹ The Lost Road and other writings

▹ The Return of the Shadow

▹ The Nature of Middle-earth

▹ The Children of Húrin

▹ Beren and Lúthien

▹ The Fall of Gondolin

▹ The Fall of Númenor

▹ The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

▹ Farmer Giles of Ham

▹ Smith of Wootton Major

▹ Roverandom

▹ Tales from the Perilous Realm

▹ Tree and Leaf

▹ Letters from Father Christmas

▹ Mr. Bliss

▹ The Bovadium Fragments: Together with ‘The Origin of Bovadium’ by Richard Ovenden

▹ The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien

▹ Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell

▹ Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo

▹ Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode

▹ The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

▹ The Fall of Arthur

▹ The Story of Kullervo

▹ The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun

▹ The Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth

▹ Tolkien On Fairy-stories

▹ The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays

▹ A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages

▹ The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle

▹ The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

▹ J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography

▹ The Road to Middle-earth

▹ The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion