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Roverandom

J. R. R. Tolkien

First published January 1998
Type Cover Art

Front cover illustration is The Gardens of the Merking's Palace. Back cover illustration of the 1985 Houghton Mifflin ed., at least, is House Where 'Rover' Began His Adventures as a 'Toy'. Both are black line drawings finished in watercolours, first published in J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator (1995) by the same editors, and there discussed at length. Reproduced as colour plates the same illustrations face pp. 10 and 58 in the 1985 HM edition. --this book, especially pp. xx-xxi of the Introduction

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 1998 Cover Roverandom HarperCollins (UK) Chapbook
April 1998 Cover Roverandom Houghton Mifflin Chapbook
September 1998 Cover Roverandom G. K. Hall & Co. Chapbook
October 1998 Roverandom HarperCollins (UK) Chapbook
January 2000 Cover Roverandom: Le avventure di un cane alato Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli Chapbook
2001 Cover Roverandom Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö Chapbook