The Devil's Coach-Horses

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Cover of the ?1929 pamphlet

The Devil's Coach-Horses is a 1925 essay by J.R.R. Tolkien.

"devil's coach-horse" is a British expression for a particular kind of rove beetle.

  • J.R.R. Tolkien, The devil's coach-horses in: The review of English studies: a quarterly journal of English literature and the English language vol. 1 no. 3 (July 1925), p. 331-6 (London, Sidgwick&Jackson), reprinted 1950.

The essay also appeared separately as a six-page pamphlet, published under the imprint "Jersey: Edward Brothers, 1925" (likely an unauthorised reprint; the typeface used dates from 1929).[1]

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