Pearl (E.V. Gordon)

Pearl
Author	Edited by E.V. Gordon
Publisher	Oxford: At the Clarendon Press
Released	June 11, 1953
Format	Hardback in dustwrapper
Pages	186
ISBN	N/A

Pearl is an edition by E.V. Gordon of the Middle English manuscript Pearl. The volume includes the section "Form and Purpose" (pp. xi-xix) by J.R.R. Tolkien, which forms part of the introduction (pp. [ix]-lii).^[1]

"Form and Purpose" was reprinted as part III of the Introduction to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo (pp. 18-23).

[edit] Editions^[2]

• 1953: Pearl
  • 2nd Impression 1958
  • 3rd Impression 1963
• 1966: Pearl
  • 5th impression 1970
  • 6th Impression 1974
• 1980: Pearl
  • 2nd Impression 1986
  • 3rd Impression 1988

[edit] See also

• The Seafarer, edited by I.L. Gordon

[edit] References

1. ↑ Bertenstam, Åke: A Chronological Bibliography of the Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien
2. ↑ An Illustrated Tolkien Bibliography at TolkienBooks.net