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Roverandom

J. R. R. Tolkien

First published January 1998
Type Interior Art

Five black line drawings variously finished, three in colour, illustrating the Moon and the Ocean as visited by the dog Roverandom

in the sequence as published in the 1998 Houghton Mifflin ed., on four plates not included in the pagination: 1. House Where 'Rover' Began His Adventures as a 'Toy' 2. untitled "view of Rover arriving on the moon" 3. The White Dragon Pursues Roverandom & the Moondog 4. Lunar Landscape 5. The Gardens of the Merking's Palace The first and last, finished watercolours, are copyright (c) 1992 by the Tolkien Trust. The others, black line with the third finished in coloured pencil, were first published in J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator (1995), where eds. Scull and Hammond "already discussed these illustrations at length". --from the 1985 Houghton Mifflin ed., primarily pp. xx-xxi of Introduction (Roverandom)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 1998 Cover Roverandom HarperCollins (UK) Chapbook
April 1998 Cover Roverandom Houghton Mifflin Chapbook
October 1998 Roverandom HarperCollins (UK) Chapbook |2
January 2000 Cover Roverandom: Le avventure di un cane alato Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli Chapbook
2001 Cover Roverandom Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö Chapbook
December 2006 Cover Roverandom Pocket Jeunesse Chapbook
September 2013 Cover Roverandom HarperCollins (UK) Chapbook