You are welcome to explore the full catalogue here: www.typeandforme.com/index.php/20....

…Tolkien was delighted by the poem and also by its language, for he realised that its dialect was approximately that which had been spoken by his mother’s West Midland ancestors’”. (Humphrey Carpenter, 1977)

“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was a ‘poem to fire [Tolkien’s] imagination: the medieval tale of an Arthurian knight and his search for the mysterious giant who is to deal him a terrible axe-blow…

Among the treasures featured is his landmark edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

While Tolkien is widely celebrated for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, this catalogue returns to the foundations of Tolkien as a writer. It highlights Tolkien’s scholarly legacy, and how historic language and literature inspired the world-building in his fictional creations.

Yup. A full day is a regular occurrence. A full week on one complex book is not unheard of.

Fab! So did those around Bess of Hardwick - but without the parchment roll list. www.bessofhardwick.org/filterresult...

You might enjoy this if you can get up to Sleaford by 16 Nov: hub-sleaford.org.uk/exhibitions/... - I did!

Woolsthorpe manor, of apple tree/gravity fame, i.e. Newton’s birthplace (also pictured in previous post), is just a short bus ride away - and all of this just an hour from London. It makes running an antiquarian bookshop in Lincolnshire rather special!