Farmer Giles of Ham.. by TOLKIEN, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien 1892 - 1973 ) / BAYNES, Pauline Diana ( 1922 - 2008 )

London: George Allen And Unwin Ltd, 1974. 0048230685. Eleventh impression. Aegidii Ahenobarbi Julii Agricole de Hammo Domini de Domito Aule Draconarie Comitis Regni Minimi Regis et Basilei mira facinora et mirabilis exortus or in the vulgar tongue The Rise and Wonderful Adventures of Farmer Giles, Lord of Tame, Count of Worminghall and King of the Little Kingdom. Pp.79, colour frontispiece and a further colour plate illustration + numerous line drawing illustrations in the text by Pauline Diana Baynes, colour patterned endpapers, owner's name to front free endpaper. Yellow cloth, dustwrapper edges rubbed with small tear and loss to front fore-edge fold. G+/G+.* " Pauline Diana Baynes (9 September 1922 – 1 August 2008) was an English illustrator whose work encompassed more than 100 books, notably several by C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien." (wiki). ** "Farmer Giles of Ham" is a comic Medieval fable written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1937 and published in 1949. The story describes the encounters between Farmer Giles and a wily dragon named Chrysophylax, and how Giles manages to use these to rise from humble beginnings to rival the king of the land. It is cheerfully anachronistic and light-hearted, set in Britain in an imaginary period of the Dark Ages, and featuring mythical creatures, medieval knights, and primitive firearms. It is only tangentially connected with the author's Middle-earth legendarium: both were originally intended as essays in "English mythology". (wiki). .