Michael Hilary Reuel
Tolkien (22 October 1920 – 27 February 1984) was a
British teacher. He was J. R. R. Tolkien's second son and was named after
J. R. R. Tolkien's brother Hilary.
Ainsworth, William Harrison. The Tower of London. New York:
Everyman’s Library, 1946.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Woodcote | January 10th 1950’
Amador, Emilio M. Martinez. Diccionario italiano-español,
español-italiano, Barcelona: Ramón Sopena, 1979.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien | Clitheroe | 3/4/80’.Bookplate design: two birds.
Arrian. The Life of Alexander the Great. Translated by Aubrey
De Sellincourt. London: Penguin Books, 1958.
Description: Inscribed ‘M.H.R. Tolkien | Gilling | May 1959’.
Athenian. The Case for Greece. London: Hollis and Carter, 1946.
Description: Inscribed ‘M.H.R. Tolkien | Oxford | February 18th 1946’
Attwater, Donald. Dictionary of Saints. London: Penguin Books, 1973.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Clitheroe | September 7th 1981’
Augustine, of Hippo Saint; Henry Scowcroft Bettenson. Concerning the City
of God against the Pagans. London: Penguin Books, 1980.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Clitheroe | March 21st 1980, St. Benedict’.
Bach,
Richard. Jonathan Livingston Seagull. London: Macmillan, 1972.
Description: Inscribed ‘M. H. R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | Christmas 1973 | from JAT’ [Joan Audrey Tolkien, MHRT’s wife].
Balzac, Honoré de. Le Colonel Chabert suivi de Farragus, chef des
Devorants, Paris: Livre de Poche, 1973.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | February 6th 1981’. With the monogram ‘MHRT’.
____ . La
Comedie Humaine, Vol. I. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1965.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | October 27th 198o’.
____ . La
Comedie Humaine, Vol. II. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1965.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | October 27th 198o’
____ . La
Comedie Humaine, Vol. III. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1965.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | October 27th 198o’.
____ . La
Comedie Humaine, Vol. IV. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1965.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | October 27th 198o’.
____ . La
Comedie Humaine, Vol. V. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1965.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | October 27th 198o’.
____ . La
Comedie Humaine, Vol. VI. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1965.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | October 27th 198o’.
____ . La
Comedie Humaine, Vol. VII. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1965.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | October 27th 198o’.
____ . Le Pere Goriot. Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1966.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | January 12th 1981’.
With the monogram ‘MHRT’.
____ . The Wild Ass’s Skin. London: Penguin Books, 1979.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Clitheroe | October 9th 1980’.
Beer,
Patricia. Mrs Beer’s House. London: Macmillan, 1968.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | Christmas 1970’; ‘Delightful and absorbing etc.’. Gift by Michael George Reuel Tolkien.
Belloc, Hilaire. Danton: a study. London: James Nisbet and Co.,
1899.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien, | Oxford, | February 15th, 1946’; ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien, | from his father, | 22nd October, 1945’ in JRRT’s hand.
Inserts: 1) ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien’ pasted insert below. 2) ‘If you would like a signature from The Lord of the Rings, you can insert this with my good wishes. J.R.R.T.’ in JRRT’s hand.
Bookplate design: Study with books.
____ . How the Reformation Happened. London: Cape, 1950.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Woodcote | May 8th 1950’.
____ . James the Second. London: Faber and Faber, Ltd, 1928.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Woodcote | October 22nd 1951’.Bookplate: original bookplate of ‘Alfred Tozer’.
____ . Monarchy
- A Sudy Of Louis XIV. London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1938.
Description: Inscribed Birthday present from Priscilla Tolkien to her brother Michael with gift lable pasted in ‘Mikey | from | Prisca | October 22nd 1944’ and ‘FROM (printed) | Prisca with very much love’ handwritten. Also ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Trinity College, | Oxford, | October 22nd 1944’. Michael has also highlighted the passage ‘The world is hungry for Monarchy’ and he wrote ‘NB’ next.Bookplate design: Tree, dove and book.
____ . The
Crisis of Our Civilization. London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1937.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien, | 20 Northmoor Road, Oxford, | September 1st,1945’; ‘Michael Tolkien, | from his father, | October 22, 1945’ written above, in JRRT’s hand.Bookplate design: Book with branch lying across.
____ . The
Jews. London: Constable and Company Limited, 1922 (2nd imp.)
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Oxford | Christmas Day, 1946’.
____ . The Servile State. London: T.N. Foulis, 1912.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Woodcote | April 21st 1948’.
Bentley, Phyllis Eleanor. A Man of His Time. London: Gollancz,
1966.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | April 8th 1966’.Bookplate design: woodcut harvesting.
Biblia Sagrada. n.d., 1975
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | June 11th 1977 (St. Barnabas)’.
Buckman, Peter. Lafayette: a biography. New York: Paddington Press,
1977.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien | Waddington | July 14th 1977’. With the monogram ‘MHRT | vii / 77’.Bookplate design: two birds.
Calonghi, Ferruccio; Georges Karl E., Oreste Badellino Dizionario della
lingua latina. Latino-italiano; italiano-latino. Torino: Rosenberg &
Sellier, 1968.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | April 14th 1975’. Additionally signed ‘MHRT’. With the monogram ‘MHRT’.
Cary,
M. A History of the Greek World 323-146 B.C. London/New York:
Methuen and Co. Ltd/Barnes and Noble Inc., 1963 (2nd Imp.)
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | January 5th, 1967’; ‘Comte Michel | Tolkienne – Hohenzollern | de Baireuth | (5/1/67)’. With the monogram ‘MHRT | 5.i.67’.
Charlot, Jean. Characters of the Reformation. London: Sheed and
Ward, 1936.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien, | Oxford, | February 11th, 1946’. ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien, | from his father J.R.R.T., | 22nd October, 1945’; ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien’.Bookplate design: Library with window and desk,
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. The
New Gerusalem. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1920.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien, | Woodcott, | Arpil 25th 1956’; previous owner’s dated 1921.
Church Catholic. The Roman Missal in Latin and English:
arranged for the use of the laity; to which is added a collection of usual
public prayers. Tournai: Society of St. John the Evangelist, Desclée, 1948
(8th ed.).
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | July 2nd 1969 | replaces lost copy obtained 22.x.39’.
Church of England. S. Swithun’s Prayer Book. London: Faith
Press, 1953 (38th imp.).
Gift inscription: From MTR ‘To my most Dear | Kinny | in love and | Christian | companionship | always | from | yout own | MHRT | Ampleforth | Christmas 1963’.
Creighton, Louise. A First History of England from A.D. 43 to the End of
the Great War. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1923.
Notes: Inscribed A unique early family copy no doubt presented by J.R.R. to his first child at the age of 5!Description: Inscribed ‘Dragon school, Oxford’. Additional signed: ‘MHRT’; ‘John Tolkien Ia.’: ‘ J. Tolkien F. R.’ on fore edge of text-block; ‘J. Tolkien’ on top edge of text-block; list of Kings written on front and rear endpapers by John Tolkien.
Cronin, Archibald Joseph. Le Destin de Robert Shannon. Paris:
Albin Michel, 1949.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | February 21st 1978’. With the monogram ‘MHRT’.
____ . Les Clés du Royaume. Translated by G. de Tonnac-Villeneuve. [Genève],
Éditions du Milieu du monde, 1959.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | January 7th 1978’. With the monogram ‘MHRT’.
____ . Lu Lumiere du Nord. Paris: Albin Michel, 1958.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | January 7th 1978’. With the monogram ‘MHRT’.
Cronin, Vincent. Louis and Antoinette. London: Collins, 1974.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | October 29th 1974’.
Cruden, Alexander; Adams, Alice D.; Waters, S. A.; Irwin, C. H. Cruden’s
complete concordance to the Bible: with notes and biblical proper names under
one alphabetical arrangement, Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 1977.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien | Clitheroe | 30/4/79’.Bookplate design: rural scene.
Dayan, Moshe. The Living Bible. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson,
1978.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Clitheroe | September 7th 1979’.
De Beer, Sir Gavin. Hannibal – The Struggle for Power in the
Mediterranean. London: Thames and Hudson, 1974 (repr.).
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien’.
Deighton, Len. Declarations of War. Suffolk: Panther, 1973.
Description: Inscribed ‘M.H.R. Tolkien | Grange Over Sands | October 27th 1974’.
Dickens, Charles. Dossier de la maison Dombey et Fils – Temps
difficiles. Series: Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 118. Paris: Gallimard,
1954.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | Xmas 1977’.Bookplate design: two birds.
____ . La Petite Dorrit – Un conte de deux villes. Series: Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 216. Paris:
Gallimard, 1960.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | Xmas 1977’.Bookplate design: two birds.
____ . Le Magasin d’antiquité – Barnabé Rudge. Series: Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 163. Paris:
Gallimard, 1963.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | Xmas 1977’.Bookplate design: two birds.
____ . Les Papiers Posthumes du Pickwick-Club – Les Aventures
d’Olivier Twist. Series:
Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 183. Paris: Gallimard, 1958.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | Xmas 1977’.Bookplate design: two birds.
____ . Nicolas Nickleby – Livres de Noël. Series: Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 186. Paris:
Gallimard, 1966.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | Xmas 1977’.Bookplate design: two birds.
____ . Souvenirs intimes de David Copperfield – De grandes
espérances. Series:
Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 105. Paris: Gallimard, 1954.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | Xmas 1977’.Bookplate design: two birds.
Diodati, Giovanni; British and Foreign Bible Society. La Sacra Bibbia,
ossia l’Antico e il Nuovo Testamento. Roma: Libreria Sacre Scritture, 1975.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | June 11th 1977’. With the monogram ‘MHRT’.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Idiot. Translated by
Boardman Robinson. London: Penguin Books, 1963.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst, | September 26th 1966.Bookplate design: woodcut of rural building.
Edwards, H. W. J. Young England. London: The National Book
Association Hutchinson and Co. Ltd., 1939.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien | Woodcott | April 13th 1950’.
Farmborough, Florence; Jolliffe, John. Russian Album
1908-1918. Salisbury: Michael Russell Ltd., 1979.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien | Clitheroe | 17/4/80’.Bookplate design: two birds, in colour.
Fisher, Herbert Albert Laurens. A History of Europe. London:
Edward Arnold & Co, 1938.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien | From | Daddy | October 22nd. 1939’.
Flaubert, Gustave. L’Education Sentimentale: histoire d’un jeune home.
Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1969.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | January 12th 1981’. With the monogram ‘MHRT’.
____ . Three Tales. London: Penguin Books, 1979.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Clitheroe | September 12th 1980’.
Flecker,
H.L.G; Macnutt, D.S. Concise Latin Grammar. London: Longmans, 1961.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Cleveleys | Febraury 1965’.
Foss,
William; Gerahty, Cecil. The Spanish Arena. London: The Right
Book Club, 1938.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Acocks Green | St Bartholomew’s Day | 1964’; ‘(A mine of useful information form 6d)’.
Gairns, John F. (Edited by). The Railway Magazine, vol. XXXVI, n.
2 July-December. London: Fetter Lane, 1915.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien’.
____ . The Railway Magazine, vol. XLII, n. 1 January-June. London: Fetter Lane,
1918.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien’.
____ . The Railway Magazine, vol. XLIII, n. 2 July-December. London: Fetter Lane,
1918.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien’.
Gibbon,
Edward. Gibbon’s Decline and fall of the Roman empire, Vol. I.
Series: Everyman’s library. History, no. 434. Edited by Christopher Dawson.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. 1956.
Notes: Inscribed Given to Michael H.R. by his father J.R.R. Tolkien.Description: Inscribed ‘From :- Father’ and ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Gilling’.
______. Gibbon’s
Decline and fall of the Roman empire, Vol. II. Series: Everyman’s
library. History, no. 435. Edited by Christopher Dawson. London: J.M. Dent
& Sons; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. 1956.
Notes: Inscribed Given to Michael H.R. by his father J.R.R. Tolkien.Description: Inscribed ‘From :- Father’ and ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Gilling’.
______. Gibbon’s
Decline and fall of the Roman empire, Vol. III. Series: Everyman’s
library. History, no. 436. Edited by Christopher Dawson. London: J.M. Dent
& Sons; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. 1956.
Notes: Inscribed Given to Michael H.R. by his father J.R.R. Tolkien.Description: Inscribed ‘From :- Father’ and ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Gilling’.
______. Gibbon’s
Decline and fall of the Roman empire, Vol. IV. Series: Everyman’s
library. History, no. 474. Edited by Christopher Dawson. London: J.M. Dent
& Sons; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. 1956.
Notes: Inscribed Given to Michael H.R. by his father J.R.R. Tolkien.Description: Inscribed ‘From :- Father’ and ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Gilling’.
______. Gibbon’s
Decline and fall of the Roman empire, Vol. V. Series: Everyman’s
library. History, no. 475. Edited by Christopher Dawson. London: J.M. Dent
& Sons; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. 1956.
Notes: Inscribed Given to Michael H.R. by his father J.R.R. Tolkien.Description: Inscribed ‘From :- Father’ and ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Gilling’.
______. Gibbon’s
Decline and fall of the Roman empire, Vol. VI. Series: Everyman’s
library. History, no. 476. Edited by Christopher Dawson. London: J.M. Dent
& Sons; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. 1956.
Notes: Inscribed Given to Michael H.R. by his father J.R.R. Tolkien.Description: Inscribed ‘From :- Father’ and ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Gilling’.
Gibson, Bishop. The First and Second Prayer Books of Edward VI.
London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1949.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Acocks Green | New Year 1950’.
Gilbert, W. S.; Sullivan, Arthur. H.M.S. Pianoforte. Vocal Scores.
London: J. B. Cramer, 1970.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien | Waddington | December 11th 1978’. Whit the monogram ‘MHRT’.
Goodman, Watson. Help from Above. World Missionary Press, Inc.,
1980.
Description: Inscribed ‘M. H. R. Tolkien | 21/12/80’.
Grant, A. J.; Temperlet, Harold. Europe in the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries (1789-1938). London: Grenn and Co., 1939.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien, | Trinity College, | Oxford, | January 31st 1940’.
Greene, Graham. La Puissance et la Gloire. Paris: Robert Laffont,
1948.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Wengen | August 29th 1970 | (on a DREARY day)’.
Gregg, Pauline. King Charles, I. London: Dent, 1981.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Clitheroe | November 16th 1981’; ‘M.H.R. Tolkien | 16/11/81’. With the monogram ‘MHRT | 16/11/81’.Bookplate design: archway.
Help form above. Chandos Classics, Warne, n.d.
Description: Inscribed ‘M.H.R. Tolkien | 21/12/80’.
Hilton, Timothy. Keats and His World. London: London: Thames and
Hudson, 1971.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | January 3rd 1975’; gift inscription ‘To Daddy | from Michael and Cathy’.
Howard, Michael. The Franco-Prussian War: the German invasion of
France, 1870-1871. London: Rupert Hant-Davis, 1961.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | January 14th 1978 | bought from J. Thornton and Son, Oxford’. With the monogram ‘MHRT’.
Hugh Latimer; Canon Beeching. Sermons by Hugh Latimer,
sometime bishop of Worcester. London: E.P. Dutton, 1926.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Cleveleys | October 22nd 1964’.
Irwin, Margaret. The Gay Galliard. The Love Story of Mary Queen of
Scots. London: Chatto and Windus, 1941.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael G.R. Tolkien | Preston. | September 26th. 1966.’ written in MHRT’s hand.
Jones, Alexander. The Jerusalem Bible. London: Darton, Longman
and Todd, 1968.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | December 20th 1972’; with Latin inscription ‘(O ORIENS, splendor | lucis aeternae, et sol | justitiae: VENI, et | ILLUMINA sedentes | in tenebris et umbra | mortis).’ Whit the monogram ‘MHRT | xii / 72’.
Kelly, Sir David. The Hungrey Sheep. London: Hollis and Carter,
1955.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien’.
Kolarz, Walter. Communism and Colonialism. Edited by George
Gretton. London: Macmillan, 1964.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | February 25th 1966’.Bookplate design: woodcut of rural building.
Lazare, Jules. Half Hours with Modern French Authors (Prose and Verse)
First Part. London: Librarie Hachette, 1931.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien’
Limebeer, D. E. The Greeks. Cambridge: At the University Press,
1961.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Ampleforth | October, 1963’.
____ . The
Greeks and the Romans. Part II The Romans. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1949.
Description: Inscribed ‘M.H. von Reuel Tolkün – Hohenzollern’; ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | OS, Summer Term. 1953’; ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | OS, Summer Term. 1955’; ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | OS, 10/5/55’.
Livy [Livius]. Rome
and the Mediterranean. London: Penguin Books, 1978 (repr.).
Description: Inscribed ‘M.H.R. Tolkien | Clitheroe | June 23rd 1980’.
____ . The War with Hannibal. Books XXI-XXX of The History of
Rome from its Foundation.
Translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt, London: Penguin Books, 1965.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Cleveleys | July 13th 1965’.
Lunn,
Arnold. Come What May. London: Eyre and Spottiswode, 1940.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien’.
____ . Communism And Socialism: A Study In The Technique Of Revolution. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1939.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Cleveleys | February 1965’.
____ . Spanish
Rehearsal. The causes of the Spanish tragedy and their relevance to English
conditions. A damning exposure of Comunist activities and tactics. London:
The National Book Association - Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1937.
Description: Inscribed ‘From JAT from JAT’ [Joan Audrey Tolkien, MHRT’s wife] | Silver Wedding Anniversary’; ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | November 11th 1966’.
____ . The Good
Gorilla. London: Hollis and Carter, 1944.
Description: Inscribed ‘C.R. Tolkien | Johannesburg | August 1944’; ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Oxford | December 30th 1950’.
Mangan, James A. Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public
School: The Emergence and Consolidation of an Educational Ideology.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Clitheroe | September 7th 1981’. Whit the monogram ‘MHRT | 7/9/81’.Bookplate design: Sailing ship signed ‘M.H.R. Tolkien | 7/9/81’.
Migliorini, Bruno. Toria della Lingua Italiana. Firenze:
Biblioteca Sansoni, 1971.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | November 26th 1976’.
Montgomery, Belgion. The Worship of Quantity – A Study
of Megalopolitics. London: Johnson, 1969.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien’.
Morgan, Charles. Liberties of the Mind. London: Macmillan, 1952.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | Epiphany 1966’.Bookplate design: woodcut of rural building.
Muggeridge, Malcolm. Winter In Moscow. London: Eyre
and Spottiswoode, 1934.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Gilling | October 22nd 1958’.Bookplate design: Fisherman.
Nay,
Sep Modest. Lehrbuch der Rätoromanischen Sprache: deutschsurselvisch.
Chur: LR [Ligia Romontscha], 1972.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | September 28th 1976’. With the monogram ‘MHRT’.
Parry, Edward. The Persecution of Mary Stewart: The Queen’s Cause a
Study in Criminology. London: Cassel and Company Ltd., 1931.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Uppingham | November 1st 1977 | (Feast of All ASaints)’; ‘(spotted by JAT [Joan Audrey Tolkien, MHRT’s wife] | in second-hand | bookshop!)’
Petrie, Sir Charles. Jabobite Movement. The First Phase 1688-1716. London:
Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1948.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Woodcote | May 29th 1950’.
Robinson, Ian. The Survival of English: essays in criticism of language.
London: Cambridge University Press, 1973.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | November 13th 1973’.
Ruskin, John. The Stones of Venice. Volume the First. The Foundations.
n.d.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | October 21st 1966’.Bookplate design: woodcut of rural building..
____ . The Stones of Venice. Volume the Third. The Fall. n.d.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | October 21st 1966’.Bookplate design: Two birds.
Sallust. Catiline Conspiracy.
Description: Inscribed ‘M.G.R. Tolkien | Ampleforth | June. 1964 | [from Daddy]’ written in MHRT’s hand.
Sandars, Edmund. A beast book for the pocket : the vertebrates of
Britain wild and domestic other than birds and fishes. London: Oxford
University Press, 1943.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Oxford | January 18th 1946’.
____ . A Bird Book for the Pocket. London: Oxford University Press, 1945.
Description: Inscribed ‘M. H. R. Tolkien | Oxford | January 5th 1946’; ‘Pour Michel | Auntie Simonne’ [d’Ardenne].
____ . An Insect Book for the Pocket. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1946.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael | from | John | October 22nd | 1947’.
Sayers, Dorothy L. The man born to be king. England: Victor
Gollancz, 1945.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien’; ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien, | 22 October, 1948, | from his father JRRT’ in JRRT’s hand.Bookplate design: Woman in window
Schevill, Ferdinand. A History of Europe from the Reformation to the
Present Day. London: G. Bell, 1939.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Trinity College, | Oxford 1940’.
Segond, Louis (Edited by). La Sainte Bible. Paris: La Société
biblique, 1974.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien | Waddington | June 11th 1977, St. Barnabas’.Bookplate design : 2 mouse on a book.
Seiver, George O. Introduction to Romanian. London: Hafner
Publishing Company, 1953.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | October 27th 1966’.
Simple Prayer Book. London: Catholic Truth Society, 1925.
Description: Inscribed ‘Joan Audrey Tolkien’ [Joan Audrey Tolkien, MHRT’s wife].
Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation. London: Jonathan Cape, 1976.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | September 15th 1976’. With the monogram ‘MHRT | IX/76’.
Snell, J. B. Trains ‘Seventy. London: Ian Allan, 1969.
Description: Inscribed ‘M. H. R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | Christmas 1969 | Gift of appreciation from Andrew Oxley | (53B)’.
Skene, Macgregor. A Flower Book for the Pocket. London : Oxford
University Press, 1944.
Description: Inscribed ‘M. H. R. Tolkien | Oxford | January 5th 1946’; ‘To my dear ‘nephew’ Mike. | Auntie Simonne’ [d’Ardenne].
Sociedades Biblicas Unidas. La Santa Biblia Antiguo Y Nuevo Testamento.
Sociedades Biblicas Unidas, 1960.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | June 11th 1977 (St. Barnabas)’.
Stendhal. The Charterhouse of Parma. London: Penguin Classics,
1978.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Clitheroe | November 14th 1980’. Contains an handwritten review on two pages signed ‘MHRT’..
Step,
Edward. Bees, Wasps, Ants and Allied Insects of the British Isles.
London-New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1932.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Cleveleys | New Year 1965’.
Stewart, Aubrey; Long, George. Plutarch’s Lives, vol. II Roman
section. London: George Bell and Sons, 1899.
Description: Inscribed ‘To Daddy:- with love and best wishes from Michael. Christmas 1962’; ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien | Gilling, | Christmas 1962 | (from Michael)’.
____ . Plutarch’s Lives, vol. III Roman section. London: George
Bell and Sons, 1899.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien | Gilling, Christmas 1962’, Christmas present from Michael G. Tolkien.
Tacitus. The Histories. Edited by Kenneth Wellesley. London:
Penguin Books, 1964.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Cleveleys | July 13th 1965’.
Tagliavini, Carlo. Le origini delle lingue neolatine.
Bologna: Pàtron, 1972 (6 ed.).
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | November 26th 1976’. Whit the monogram ‘MHRT | XI/76’.Bookplate design: Head of Unicorn.
The Diary of a Staff Officer at Advanced Headquarters North B.A.F.F. 1940. London: Methuen, 1941 (sixth ed. August 8th].
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien (the Devonshire Regiment) at Paddington Station | August 8th 1941’ written in single colour ink.
Tolkien, J. R. R. Bilbo le hobbit. Translated by Francis
Ledoux. Paris: Éditions J’ai Lu, 1974.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | September 27th , 1974 | (feast of SS Cosmas/Damian)’. ‘One of three complimentary copies sent to | me by Alina Dadlez, Foreign Rights | Manager of George Allen and Unwin ltd.’. ‘(“The cover of the pocket book edition is | amongst the worst I have seen” – covering | note of Alina Dadlez, which echoes my | own sentiments!)’.
____ . Bilbo le hobbit. Translated by Francis Ledoux. Paris: Hachette, 1980.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | November 25th 1980’; ‘Complimentary copy from Alina Dadlez)’.
____ . Il
Cacciatore di Draghi. Torino: Einaudi, 1975.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | December 4th 1975 | (The day I made the B.B.C. | Radio Blackburn J.R.R.T. | broadcast for Christmas Day).’
____ . Le Avventure di Tom Bombadil. Milano: Rusconi, 1978.
Description: Inscribed ‘MHRT | Waddington | February 8th 1979’.
____ . Le
Seigneur des Anneaux [The Lord of the Rings], Vol. I La
Communauté de l’Anneau. Paris: Gallimard 1000 Soleils, 1980.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | November 25th 1980 | (complimentary copy | from Alina Dadlez)’.
____ . Le
Seigneur des Anneaux [The Lord of the Rings], Vol. II Le
Deux Tours. Paris: Gallimard 1000 Soleils, 1980.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | November 25th 1980 | (complimentary copy | from Alina Dadlez)’.
____ . Le
Seigneur des Anneaux [The Lord of the Rings], Vol. III Le
Retour du Roi. Paris: Gallimard 1000 Soleils, 1980.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Waddington | November 25th 1980 | (complimentary copy | from Alina Dadlez)’.
____ . Lo
Hobbit. Milano: Adelphi, 1973.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | August 8th 1974 | on returning from Helvetia’.
____ . O Senhor dos Aneis [The Lord of the Rings]. Livro
Primeiro: A terra mágica. Translated by Antônio Ferreira da Rocha. Rio de
Janeiro: Artenova Editora, 1974.
Description: Inscribed ‘MHRT | Waddington | March 21st 1977’. With the monogram ‘MHRT | iii/77’.
____ . O Senhor dos Aneis [The Lord of the Rings]. Livro
Segundo: O povo do anel. Translated by Antônio Ferreira da Rocha. Rio de
Janeiro: Artenova Editora, 1975.
Description: Inscribed ‘MHRT | Waddington | 11th 1976’
____ . O Senhor dos Aneis [The Lord of the Rings]. Livro
Terceiro: As duas torres. Translated by Luiz Alberto Monjardim. Rio de
Janeiro: Artenova Editora, 1975.
Description: Inscribed ‘MHRT | Waddington | 11th 1976’
____ . O Senhor dos Aneis [The Lord of the Rings]. Livro
Quarto: A volta do anel. Translated by Luiz Alberto Monjardim. Rio de
Janeiro: Artenova Editora, 1976.
Description: Inscribed ‘MHRT | Waddington | 11th 1976’
____ . Racconti
incompiuti di Numenor e della Terra di Mezzo [Unfinished Tales of
Númenor and Middle-earth]. Milano: Rusconi 1981.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien’
____ . The
Adventures of Tom Bombadil. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Ampleforth, | September 1963’. Whit the monogram ‘MHRT’.Bookplate design: Phasianidae.
____ . The
Silmarillion. London: Unwin Paperback, 1979.
Description: Inscribed ‘Complimentary Copy. | Michael H.R. Tolkien | 16/2/79’; ‘This copy has benn too narrowly ‘guillotined’ | replacement received 19/3/79 with compliments and apologies of David Fielder, Unwin Paper Books’ ‘Hemel Hempstead, Herts | MHRT | 19/3/79.
Turner, W. J. The Englishman’s Country. London: Collins, 1945.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Oxford | October 22nd, 1946’; ‘From John to Michael | Oct. 22nd, 1946 with much Love’Bookplate design: window and rural scene.
Vidos, B. E. Manuale di Linguistica Romanza. Translated by G.
Francescato. Firenze: Leo Olschki, 1959.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien |
Waddington | November 26th 1976’.
Virgil. The Aeneid. Edited by W. F. Jackson Knight. London:
Penguin Books, 1958.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Gilling | May 1959’.
von Hildebrand, Dietrich Richard Alfred. Trojan Horse
in the City of God. Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1967.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | July 30th 1968’.
Waddell, L.A., The British Edda. The Great Epic Poem of the Ancient
Britons on the Exploits of King Thor, Arthur or Adam and His Knights in
Establishing Civilization Reforming Eden & Capturing The Holy Grail About
3380-3350 B.C.. London: Chapman and Hall, 1930.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Woodcote | Christmas 1950’.Bookplate design: Boy and girl sitting as they read.
Williams, C. J. A Register of all the Locomotives now in use on the
London & North-Western Railway 1922. Crewe: 1924.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | July 21st 1969 | replaces copy given me by J.R.R.T. on my 13th birthday 22/10/33 - lost in war’.
Williams, R. R. What’s Right with the Church of England. London:
Lutter Worth Press, 1966.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | November 3rd 1966’.
Wilson, Edmund. The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest.
London: Allen and Unwin, 1964.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H. R. Tolkien’.
Winstock, Lewis S. Songs & Music of the Redcoats: A History of the
War Music of the British Army 1642-1902. Mechanicsburg: Stackpole
Books, 1970.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien |
Stonyhurst | May 12th 1973’.
Wiseman, Nicholas. Fabiola or, The church of the catacombs. London:
Burns and Oates, 1885 (new ed.).
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | January 1968’.
Notes: bound in full leather for Beaumont college, with inscription stating the rector of Stonyhurst college has given permission for MHRT to take it.
Wood,
Dorothy. Leo VI’s Concept of Divine Monarchy. Illustrated in a Cave
Chapel. London: The Monarchist Press Association, 1964.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | August 26th 1966’; ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien’.
Wren,
Percival C. Beau Geste. London: John Murray, 1952.
Description: Inscribed ‘M. H. R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | October 22nd 1966 | from JAT’ [Joan Audrey Tolkien, MHRT’s wife].
____ . Beau Ideal. London: John Murray, 1952.
Description: Inscribed ‘M. H. R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst October 22nd 1966 | from JAT’ [Joan Audrey Tolkien, MHRT’s wife].
____ . Beau Sabreur, London: John Murray, 1962.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien |
Stonyhurst | August 25th 1968’.
____ . Soldiers of Misfortune: The Story of Otho Belleme. London: John Murray, 1957.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | September 26th 1968’.
____ . The Man of a Ghost. London: John Murray, 1939.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | November 1968’. With the monogram ‘MHRT’.
____ . The Wages of Virtue. London: John Murray, 1961.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | August 25th 1968’.
Wyatt, A. J.; Chambers, R. W. Beowulf and the Finnsburg Fragment.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933.
Description: Inscribed ‘From JAT’ [Joan Audrey Tolkien, MHRT’s wife]. ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Gilling | December 1960’.Bookplate design: rural scene.
Xenophon. The Persian Expedition. n.d.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | 1950’
Zaehner, R. C. Dialectical Christianity and Christian Materialism.
London: Oxford University Press, 1975 (3rd ed.).
Description: Inscribed ‘M. H. R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | March 3rd 1975’.
____ . Our
Savage God. London: Collins, 1974.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | January 30th, 1975 | (feast of King Charles | the Martyr)’.
Zajdlewowa, Zoe. The Dark Side of the Moon. Preface
by T. S. Eliot. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1946.
Description: Inscribed ‘M. H. R. Tolkien | Stonyhurst | May 2nd 1970 | feast of St. Athanasius | from JAT’ [Joan Audrey Tolkien, MHRT’s wife].
Zola,
Emile. Germinal. London: Penguin Classics, 1973.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Clitheroe | December 4th 1980 | (St. Barbara)’. Contains an handwritten review on two pages signed ‘MHRT’.
____ . L’Assomoir. London: Penguin Classics, 1980
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Clitheroe | December 4th 1980 | (St. Barbara)’. Contains an handwritten review on two pages signed ‘MHRT’.
____ . La Bete Humaine. Paris: Flammarion, 1980.
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Clitheroe | December 4th 1980’
____ . The Debacle. London: Penguin Classics, 1980
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Clitheroe | November 20th 1980 | (St. Barbara)’. Contains an handwritten review on two pages signed ‘MHRT’.
____ . The Earth. London: Penguin Classics, 1980
Description: Inscribed ‘Michael H.R. Tolkien | Clitheroe | November 14th 1980 | (St. Barbara)’. Contains an handwritten review on two pages signed ‘MHRT’.
Biography [Wiki]
When young Michael lost
his toy dog and became sad about this, his father began to write the story of
Roverandom to comfort him. Michael also used to own a Dutch doll which became
an inspiration for Tom Bombadil. In 1939, Michael volunteered for the British
Army but he was told to continue his university studies. He studied history at
Trinity College, Oxford. In 1941, Michael Hilary Tolkien served in an
anti-aircraft role during the Battle of Britain for which he was awarded the
George Medal. He met a nurse named Joan Audrey Griffith (1916–1982) whom he
married the same year. Later in World War II, he served as an anti-aircraft
gunner in France and Germany. In 1944, he returned to Trinity College and
finished his studies. He graduated in Modern History in 1945.
From 1947 until the
1970s he worked as a teacher at various Catholic schools in Britain. In 1973,
Michael Tolkien published an article about his father in The Sunday Telegraph:
"J. R. R. Tolkien – The Wizard Father".
Michael and his wife
Joan had three children: Michael George Reuel (b. 1943), Joan Anne (b. 1945)
and Judith (b. 1951). Royd Tolkien is the son of Michael's daughter Joan.
Michael Hilary Reuel Tolkien died in 1984 from leukemia.
