OT: New The Silmarillion 2022 Illustrated Deluxe edition

New edition to match last years LoTR release. I have pre-ordered.
ISBN: 978-0008537906

For the first time ever, a beautiful slipcased edition of the forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, illustrated throughout in colour by J.R.R. Tolkien himself, with the complete text printed in two colours and with many bonus features unique to this edition.

Last years LoTR edition:

Enabled, thanks!

We haven’t had a new ‘deluxe’ Tolkien book for, ooh, at least 3 months!

>3 Uppernorwood: It's a guaranteed seller. At least all the releases have been notably different, and this is the first one recently to hit the sweet spot for what I want in a gift edition.

2 questions
Bonded or real leather?
Sewn signatures?

What do you think about Tolkien's own illustrations? For me, they really convey the spirit of his work and they still leave much to the imagination. I wish Folio would publish Tolkien's work with these illustrations.

>5 trentsteel: Bonded or real leather?
The colophon on the 2021 HarperCollins LOTR single-volume illustrated de luxe slipcased edition makes no mention of leather: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gs8tqCzucw&t=8m2s
This post also confirms a failed 'smell test': https://www.librarything.com/topic/330877#7638019
Genuine goatskin (or any animal hide) would definitely be mentioned.

>5 trentsteel: Sewn signatures?
The signatures on the 2021 LOTR are barely visible through the gilt edges in these videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYLtNu-Z3Yg&t=7m31s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSJUiw8wf0U&t=4m20s

The 2022 HarperCollins Silmarillion illustrated de luxe slipcased edition on Amazon UK (to be released on 10 Nov, 2022): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Silmarillion-J-R-Tolkien/dp/0008537909

Discussion thread for 2021 HarperCollins LOTR single-volume illustrated de luxe slipcased edition pictured in the OP: https://www.librarything.com/topic/330877

The 2022 Silmarillion Illustrated Deluxe Edition is currently discounted to £82.09 £93.75 (as of 26/11/2022 08:50 GMT) from an RRP of £125.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Silmarillion-J-R-Tolkien/dp/0008537909

ETA: Change in discount.

I hope that Houghton Mifflin produces an illustrated deluxe edition of The Hobbit in order to complement these editions of LOTR and The Silmarillion.

>8 mr.philistine: I pre-ordered it from Book Depository and received it a few days ago, looks great next to LotR. Still on sale there too, along with a lot of other Tolkien hardbacks.

https://www.bookdepository.com/Silmarillion-J-R-R-Tolkien/9780008537906