{"id":430,"date":"2026-04-05T03:50:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tolkienbibliography.us\/?p=430"},"modified":"2026-04-05T13:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:20:20","slug":"1956-the-ancrene-riwle-preface-by-tolkien-1st-edition-hardcover-university-of-notre-dame-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tolkienbibliography.us\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"1956 \u2013 The Ancrene Riwle (Preface by Tolkien) \u2013 1st Edition \u2013 Hardcover\u2013 University of Notre Dame Press"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UK edition published a year earlier by Burns &amp; Oates in England.  I have been unable to locate a copy with a dustjacket. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Full Title<\/strong>: The Ancrene Riwle (the Corpus ms. : Ancrene Wisse)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Authors<\/strong>: Translated into Modern English by M. B. Salu with an Introduction by Dom Gerard Sitwell, and a Preface by J. R. R. 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