Four-volume collector’s edition of The Lord of the Rings in hardcover, which includes the original, unused designs of Tolkien’s protective slipcase, along with a fourth hardcover volume, The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Guide. It includes special features and the definitive edition of the text. Since it was first published in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has become a book treasured by readers. Filled with enduring magic and other worlds, its vast imagination has touched the hearts of young and old alike, with one hundred and fifty million copies of its many editions sold worldwide. In 2005, Tolkien’s text was fully restored - in collaboration with Christopher Tolkien - with nearly 400 corrections, the original red and black maps as foldout sheets, a fully revised and expanded index and, for the first time, a special image section including the pages from the Book of Mazarbul, making this set as close as possible to the edition J.R.R. Tolkien intended.