The first appearance of Tolkien and D’Ardenne’s co-authored essay MS. Bodley 34: A re-collation of a collation.
First edition. Octavo. In the original grey paper wrappers, lettered black. A very good copy indeed, largely unopened, but for the Tolkien and D’Ardenne essay. A few annotations to the article.
 
Rare.
 
Following his early and mid-career work on Hali Meiðhad, Tolkien revisited the ‘Katherine Group’ in MS Bodley 34 in this article, which he co-wrote with the Belgian medieval philologist, his former student Simonne d’Ardenne (1899-1986). Towards the end of the article, the authors state: ‘This edition begun long ago was interrupted in 1938-1945, when we were otherwise engaged. It is now, however, nearly completed on the basis of a careful review of the manuscript itself, and will, we hope, shortly be in print’.