I am going to get this one from Speedyhen as in this case, I am in no hurry on delivery, they are currently at £32.83 plus free UK delivery, but I can't order as yet.

https://www.speedyhen.com/Product/J-R- ... ile-Gift-Edition/21650088

Has anyone gotten it? Any report?

Ah, found it— https://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/n ... t_id=19211#forumpost19211

It is slightly better than the first attempt, but the colours seem to still be a bugbear. The Jacket is too dark and the boards are too bright. The top-stain is less lurid than the last attempt, which is a good thing. Overall the book is undoubtedly an improvement, albeit a minor one.

Worth buying for the CD, but probably not for the book itself if you already have a facsimile first edition. It seems to be heavily discounted, so at least it is fairly inexpensive.

The Lenticular print on the cover is not only a bad technical implementation of a lenticular print, it makes the box look bad. Without the print, the box would be quite nice. I never will understand publishers.

I bought it for the CD and booklet. I did so though with a serious gripe at HarperCollins making us buy a gift box to obtain an unreleased lecture, no matter how incidental, an unreleased Tolkien text should not be thrown into a gift set as the hook.

Can't remember if this was mentioned or not; but the "Gift Set" facsimile edition doesn't carry an updated copyright page except in respect to the printer, right? I only opened this yesterday & the copyright page still says 2016 (1st imp.) even though it was published in 2018. The box itself carries a new ISBN (& mentions 2018) but the book does not. The original 2016 facsimile Ed. was printed in Italy & the 2018 was printed in China. I haven't being paying much attention to the Chinese reprints (generally) but I take it this is typical of their failure to update copyrights? I can understand impression numbering being missed (although annoying for collectors), but this book doesn't even have the correct date. That said, it is essentially just another printing of the 2016 edition.

Yeah, I noticed it was incorrect when I got my copy. Fair enough to leave the date as 2016, but the number-line should have been adjusted. I figured they no longer seem to be bothering to change them when they switch over to the Chinese printers, as we have seen this again and again. Makes a bit of a mockery of collecting first impressions (although I don't think anything released of late is really "collectable", so meh).

But I thought these were only available for a limited time? And really collectable...

How is the shade of red in the black-and-red maps? Is it dark red like in the 2016 edition, or a brighter red closer to the first edition?