Charles Davis writes \”Story from
Ananova, A rare first edition of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy has gone on display at the British Library.
The display also includes a first edition of The Hobbit and
letters from JRR Tolkien to his grandson. In one of the letters Tolkien talks of losing his privacy, having become an unwilling celebrity.\”
In other news from England, Project to refurbish Bodleian Old Library complete, A four-year project to refurbish all the reader areas of the Bodleian Old Library has been completed, ahead of the Library\’s 400th anniversary next year.
A New Bodley Library Exhibit \”A Nation of Shopkeepers – Trade Ephemera from 1654 to the 1860s in the John Johnson Collection\” has gone online.
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