And also two more Hobbits (about £5 each delivered). Nothing special - just the usual B/W illustrations. I bought the original-style cover as it fits my collecting criteria for trying to find international editions that use it (though my preference is for editions closer to the A&U rendering than the original Tolkien rendering). I just liked the cover on the other. The eagle cover edition is the more budget version, though both are from the same publisher (Horizon) and are official products, rather than ones coming out of TH now being in the public domain in China.

The late Stu wrote:

I picked up a Chinese Nasmith Silmarillion. Only 16 illustrations, but that means they are printed properly on gloss paper and interleaved with the text-paper signatures. Sewn binding. Cost about £10 delivered. I genuinely would be happier if HarperCollins were producing editions like this with less images, but printing them to a standard that they are worth printing. Really no comparison in the image quality here.

Wow, those illustrations look way better than the ones in my traffic cone orange edition!

ǽc ælf wrote:

The late Stu wrote:

I picked up a Chinese Nasmith Silmarillion. Only 16 illustrations, but that means they are printed properly on gloss paper and interleaved with the text-paper signatures. Sewn binding. Cost about £10 delivered. I genuinely would be happier if HarperCollins were producing editions like this with less images, but printing them to a standard that they are worth printing. Really no comparison in the image quality here.

Wow, those illustrations look way better than the ones in my traffic cone orange edition!

They are much better than those in traffic cone. I guess there is the tradeoff though - less illustrations (and being in Simplified Chinese). Given the low price, I think it is well worth buying a copy just for the illustrations for anyone that is a Nasmith fan.