Berelach wrote:

Urulókë wrote:

Stu wrote:

If you look at the top of the front flap it appears to state SECOND IMPRESSION

I agree. And the picture that I marked up does, to my eye, appear to be saying Printed in Great Britain, which matches Hammond's description of what is on the lower right corner of the rear flap for the first impression dustjacket. I am guessing that they dropped the information on the lower left corner that the first impression jacket had, but I can't seem to find a description of the second impression jacket offhand (and I don't have that impression myself).

This is my copy of the 2nd impression jacket (it does say 'SECOND IMPRESSION' at the top of the front flap). There's another copy on eBay where you can see everything more clearly.

Urulókë wrote:

The price is also listed just below the three titles on the rear flap ("Medium 8vo 21s net each"). So perhaps when they printed the jackets in more than one batch for the second printings, someone decided that the lower flap left corner was duplicative (all of it appears elsewhere on the dustjacket) and dropped it?

Urulókë wrote:

I believe that information never shows up again (ie 3rd impressions and on don't have it, just the "Printed in Great Britain" on the lower right side of lower flap). So perhaps this indicates it was removed in the middle of the second impression. Does anyone have 3rd impression lower flaps to look at?

garm wrote:

Berelach beat me to it.

I don't have a 4th imp. jacket, but the 'publisher etc' info is missing from my 5th.