Author: Tolkien, J B, Tolkien, J R R

Publisher: London: Novello 1872.

Description: this is a bookseller label, 40 x 23 mm, printin in blue, reading "J B Tolkien, Music Seller, Birmingham" with a faint half circle ornament. The label is affixed to Elijah by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy published by Novello in the series Novello's Original Octavo edition. The volume is preserved in a private paper cover (not glued) which obscured and preseved the bookseller label. The book is published without a date but by the testimony of the impression left bythe type on the paper it can be dated as a first edition (1872). According to the Tolkien page on Wikipedia, J R R grandfather was "John Benjamin Tolkien, of High-street, Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Pianoforte and Music Seller". (The London Gazette. 2 October 1877. p 5498)

Order No: PIP 226837

Language: English

This book has been catalogued with the following subject terms: Book History, Ephemera, Music