#George Allen & Unwin

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

March 25th is Tolkien Reading Day, a day to honor the literary prowess of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) author of acclaimed high fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien has shared that the seeds of inspiration for his novels came from his childhood fascination and experimentation with constructed language and a 1911 Summer holiday hiking through Switzerland. Roughly fourteen years after his Swiss adventure, Tolkien would write The Hobbit and the first two volumes of Lord of the Rings while teaching in Oxford.  

Stepping slightly away from Tolkien’s novels, today we’re digging into our broadside collection and sharing Bilbo’s Last Song (At Grey Havens), a poem about leaving Middle-Earth. It first appeared, as seen here, as a poster published in 1974 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., the original English publisher of his famous novels, with illustrations by Pauline Baynes (1922-2008), who illustrated many of Tolkien's publications. Chronologically, the poem takes place at the end of the last volume of Lord of the Rings, however it was never included in the series. 

Read other Milestone Monday posts here! 

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

#milestone monday #j.r.r. tolkien #tolkien reading day #the hobbit #lord of the rings #bilbo's last song (at grey havens) #pauline baynes #broadsides #George Allen & Unwin

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

William Oliver Stevens - Unbidden Guests: A Book of Real Ghosts - George Allen & Unwin - 1951

#witches #guests #occult #vintage #photographic design #real ghosts #william oliver stevens #unbidden guests #a book of real ghosts #ghosts #1951 #george allen & unwin

[nathsketch]

In 1954, on this exact day, The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of The Lord of the Rings, was published for the first time by George Allen & Unwin, and the rest is history. I read it for the first time around the same time the movies were about to be released, in 2001, and I'll continue to revisit these beloved characters and wonderful places until the day that I die.

Happy 69th anniversary to our dear old friends 🧝🏻‍♂️���

#the fellowship of the ring #first publication #jrr tolkien #art #my art #artists on tumblr #nathsketch #the lord of the rings #favorite books #gandalf #frodo baggins #sam gamgee #merry and pippin #aragorn #legolas #gimli #boromir

[nobrashfestivity]

Stamps from the North Pole. For 20 years, beginning in 1920, the children of J.R.R.Tolkien received illustrated letters from Father Christmas. from J.R.R. Tolkien: The Father Christmas Letters, George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 1976

via stopping off place

#jrr tolkien #j.r.r. tolkien #Illustration #stamps #children's art #set

[detroitlib]

From our stacks: Illustration "Member of the Children's staff of the Library." From David Copperfield's Library. By John Brett Langstaff. With Prologue by Sir Owen Seaman and Epilogue by Alfred Noyes. Illustrated by Raven Hill, Frank Reynolds, H. M. Bateman, Arthur Norris, and Hanslip Fletcher. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1924.

#raven hill #illustration #library staff #books #book #old books #library books #staff #libraries #library #detroit public library

[maironsbigboobs]

I know I absolutely deserve to be Canceled Utterly and without Mercy for this take but...

um...

That picture with the little dude in jorts and red pointy shoes crawling over roots?

That... I mean we all know that isn't Beleg, right? I mean I know this is a death knell take but that forest isn't Doriath. It isn't Dimbar. It isn't even Brethil. It's Fangorn.

Fangorn.

At best that's Legolas.

I hate myself for knowing this. I want Beleg to have little red sassy boots. How did everyone come to associate that painting with Beleg when it's Fangorn Forest?

Accept the boots into your heart. No you are correct, it is captioned as Fangorn.

Apparently: It was Fangorn on the 1973 cover of Two Towers, but was apparently first an image of Beleg and Gwindor that JRRT repurposed.

According to Tolkien gateway:

The only possible explanation is that J.R.R. Tolkien decided that "The Silmarillion" painting could nevertheless be used as the cover illustration of the George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1973 edition of The Two Towers, as an illustration of the hobbits in Fangorn Forest. It was probably done at the same time as the other "Silmarillion" paintings in the late 1920s.

#answered #Anonymous

[themalhambird]

I'm back at work and I've finished my work, so have the citations for this post!:

Levitt, Sarah, Victorians Unbuttoned: Registered Designs for Clothing, their Makers and Wearers, 1839-1900 (George Allen & Unwin Inc, London, 1986)

“For both sexes [sic], and all classes, covering the head was considered essential for decency. Of his childhood in a Salford slum at the turn of the century, Robert Roberts (The Classic Slum) wrote: ‘A man or woman, walking the street hatless, struck one as either “low”, wretchedly poor, just plain eccentric or even faintly obscene.’” (p. 106) “The Bowler…was widely worn from the 1860s, and by 1900 was threatening the popularity of the top hat among certain sections of society…[I]t was hardwearing, conferred a pompous dignity on the would-be important, while its narrow curled brim lent itself to fashionable novelty when required…it was to form part of the typical dress of the City gent and the artisan of standing on each side of the Atlantic.” (pp.111-112)

@thebeautifulsoup

[dogandcatcomics]

Attribution: Feodor Stepanovich "Rojan" Rojankovsky. Snippet from Scaf le Phoque [Scaf the seal ]. Story by Lída aka Ludmila Durdikova (b. Prague, Czechia, 1899-1955, later France) with illustrations by Rojankovsky (b. Russian empire, later France and USA, 1891-1970). The book was originally published by @flammarion in Paris in 1936 and soon after in a translated edition from George Allen and Unwin in London. Although the dog is not the primary character I do appreciate this canine representation. Thanks to @designfortoday for the tip.

#perro #dog #chien #illustration #hund #hond #koira #köpek #childrensbook #children's book #children's illustration #kinderboek #kinderbuch #kinderbuch illustration #livres jeunesse #libros infantiles #illustrations #vintage illustration #illustration jeunesse #ilustración infantil #ilustraçao #cachorro #cão #Rojankovsky

[citizenscreen]

J. R. R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' was published by George Allen and Unwin in London 85 years ago today, #OnThisDay in 1937.

#the hobbit

[randomestfandoms-ocs]

🔁

forgive me for going a bit insane here, I'm putting it below the cut because it got very out of hand! (this is also definitely not an exclusive list just the ones that came to mind!)

Send me a 🔁 and I’ll list one or more crossovers between our ocs that I’d be interested in talking about

Roni Tanner:

Mercy Bowen

Mia Queen

Piper Pan:

Finley Rider

Isadora Darling

Nerissa

Winnie Pan

Violet Kingsleigh

Terry Bell:

Nerissa

Winnie Pan

Rose Smythe:

Annika Webster

Imogen Allen

Kelsey Doyle

Mia Queen

Bobbi LaCosta:

Jane Forester

Lucas Gilmore

Charlotte Howard-Danes

Eleanor Doose

Eliya Rygalski

Evan Mariano

Gabi Mariano

Holland Bass

The Band (Matt King, Tommy Gilmore, Luca to-be-renamed Bloom, Livi Ruiz, Esme Gerard, Skye Bloom)

Sam Gleason

Carli Tanner:

Ophelia Wayne

Isolde Kean

(Plus other general batman & batman 2022 ocs who could be modified to fit gotham!)

Lila Lupin:

Adriana Flores

Gemini Black

Jessica Stevens

Holly Evans

Athena Prewett:

Bobbie Fortescue

Emerald Evans

Lyarra Vance

Nineve Weasley

Phoenix Dumbledore

Venus Malfoy

Violetta Greengrass

Stella Knight:

Atalanta Jackson

Carissa Grace

Cassandra Aelius

Delia

Lila

Melody Weiss

Gwen Macintosh:

Brandy Hayes

Sherry Unwin

Xenia Hart

Kris Smythe:

Imogen Allen

Sadie Maddox

Roni Stark:

Alessia Stark

Adelaide Stark

Adonis Stark

Aris Stark

Athena Stark

Aurora Hansen-Stark

Ava Potts

Brigid

Ezra Barton

Cora & Orion Royce

Tyler Barton

Zora Wright

Will Parker

(there's definitely more but I have too many mcu ocs so i'm trying to chill)

Rikki Lane:

Chloe Grace Routledge

Cody Maybank

Jo Clarke

Alexa Cantwood:

Cressida Brantley

Crystal Solace

Elyana Chase

Melody Weiss

Stella Beauregard

Victoria Blofis

Drea Jones:

Ana Andrews

Charlotte Jones

Delaney Carlyle

Fallon Parris Jones

Harper Harrison

Jett Jones

Kris Keller

Lyra Lovell

Tanya Conway

Sharon Henderson:

Beth Munson

Camila Nelson

Cara Henderson

Rhiannon Ballard

Samantha Mayfield

Sidney Hopper

Stacey Byers

Valerie Rush

Roxy Winchester:

Ainsley Winchester

Deborah Winchester

Elle Winchester

Esther Colt

Isla George

Nevaeh Murphy

Phoebe Winchester

Trix Stilinski

Cora Hargreeves:

Alice Hargreaves

Andromeda Hargreaves

Audrey Hargreaves

Cassie Hargreaves

Cleo Sullivan

Dahlia Mort

Kamaria Hargreaves

Max Carmichael

Mira Hargreaves

Mireille Labonair

Odessa Hargreaves

Poppy

Sierra Nearing

Vienna Montgomery

Virginia West

Wilhelmina Hargreaves

#ask #answered #thecaptainsgingersnap #crossover ask

[snuh]

Tony Roberts: Khalindaine - George Allen & Unwin #823320, April 1986

[duardius]

asymmetrical avante-garde

first us edition issued by lear publishers, nyc, 1925. echoes typography of the first edition [george allen & unwin, london, 1922]—axial, modernized old-style; with exception of the title page: either the publisher had a penchant for trends in european typography or commissioned a trendy designer. authors & title ‹kleinschreibung›, set asymmetrically in bodoni—early foray into the new typography by an american publisher.  i can discover little about lear publishers: in 1925 they were located in greenwich village [24 e. 11th st.]; of their output now listed by booksellers most available editions date from the 1940s; nothing on the proprietor[s], or the office.

in 1922 ogden & richards had issued their magnum opus: The Meaning of Meaning [kegan paul, london]—vide ‹words «mean» nothing by themselves›.

#typography #aesthetics #asymmetry #kleinschreibung #bodoni #lear publishers

[wausaupilot]

Today in History: Today is Friday, Oct. 20, the 293rd day of 2023. There are 72 days left in the year.

On this date: In 1955 Publication of "The Return of the King", the 3rd and final volume of "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien by George Allen and Unwin in London.

By The Associated Press Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 20, 1977, three members of the rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd, including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, were killed along with three others in the crash of a chartered plane near McComb, Mississippi. On this date: In 1803, the U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase. In 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings…

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#afternoon update #Milestones #today in history

[literarytourist-blog-blog]

Andrew Nash on the value of Publishers' Archives

Andrew Nash is Reader in Book History at the Institute of English Studies, University of London (a leading book history scholar in other words) and Director of the London Rare Books School.

We sat down in the stacks at the Mark Longman "Books about Books" Library at the University of Reading (well, actually the Museum of English Rural Life in Reading which is somehow connected to the University and its publishers' archives collections) to talk about a course Andrew teaches ​at the London Rare Book School on how to use/work with publishers' archives.

Th​ough this topic may sound a ​tad niche, even for this podcast, it's not. Andrew makes the convincing ​c​ase that publishers' archives are in fact ​of interest to many scholars, and have valu​e precisely because they can be studied from many​ different economic, social, ​and cultural​ perspectives. Publishers' archives​ yield, among other things, fascinating, detailed information about how knowledge and "culture" is “made public” in society. They’re not just about author-publisher correspondence​s, though these in themselves are justly recognized and valued as essential documents of cultural heritage, no, they’re about providing scholars, and the world at large, with rich source documentation, from which all of us can better understand...yes, everything!

Archives referenced during our conversation include those of Allen & Unwin, Chatto and Windus, Longmans, John Murray, George Routledge, and The Hogarth Press.

Check out this episode!

[detroitlib]

From our stacks: Illustration "The Child who, having read every volume in David Copperfield's Library, asks for more." From David Copperfield's Library. By John Brett Langstaff. With Prologue by Sir Owen Seaman and Epilogue by Alfred Noyes. Illustrated by Raven Hill, Frank Reynolds, H. M. Bateman, Arthur Norris, and Hanslip Fletcher. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1924.

#h.m. bateman #bateman #illustration #books #book #book illustration #old books #library books #nerds #detroit public library

[wikiuntamed]

Five steps of Wikipedia for Thursday, 28th September 2023

Welcome, שלום, Bienvenue, Willkommen 🤗 Five steps of Wikipedia from "Peek-A-Poo" to "1908 Nobel Prize in Literature". 🪜👣

Start page 👣🏁: Peek-A-Poo "Peek-A-Poo: What's In Your Diaper? (originally titled Mag Ik Eens In Je Luier Kijken?) is a 2010 picture book for children pertaining to toilet training, catered to children of ages two to five, written and illustrated by Guido van Genechten and published by Clavis Publishing on January 1, 2010. It..."

Step 1️⃣ 👣: Allen & Unwin "George Allen & Unwin was a British publishing company formed in 1911 when Sir Stanley Unwin purchased a controlling interest in George Allen & Co. It went on to become one of the leading publishers of the twentieth century and to establish an Australian subsidiary in 1976. In 1990, Allen & Unwin was..."

Step 2️⃣ 👣: Bertrand Russell "Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. He had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer..."

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Step 3️⃣ 👣: 1906 Nobel Prize in Literature "The 1906 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Italian poet Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907) "not only in consideration of his deep learning and critical research, but above all as a tribute to the creative energy, freshness of style, and lyrical force which characterize his poetic masterpieces."..."

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Step 4️⃣ 👣: 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature "The 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the German writer Paul Heyse (1830–1914) "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories."..."

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Step 5️⃣ 👣: 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature "The 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the German philosopher Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846–1926) "in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works he..."

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