This first edition was produced by Het Spectrum as a public relations gift and was not for sale in bookshops.

The paper cover is plain rose-red. The dust-jacket is greyish-beige with the author's name in red and the title in black on the upper cover and spine (see image, click for enlargement). There are no illustrations.

The pagination is strange: the first numbered page is '7' after only the front free endpaper, and one page with the title on the recto and a copyright notice etc. on the verso. It then numbers through to 53 on the recto of the back free endpaper.

This is called the third printing, so presumably Sprookjes [D1] was considered the second printing.

It has a coloured cover, and black and white endpapers and 18 illustrations within the text by Walt de Rijk. The wraparound cover shows Smith and the Fairy Queen silhouetted against a starry sky (see image, click for enlargement). On the spine and against the ground at the bottom of the upper cover is the title and the author's name in white.

First printing as a children's edition. The book also contains Boer Gilles van Ham.

The cover illustration is by Omar Rayyar, showing a smith and a unicorn (see image, click for enlargement). Contents: pp. 5-36: De smid van Groot-Wolding ; pp. 37-91: Boer Gilles van Ham.

Printed on the upper cover is a photograph of a small tree against the sun, with the title in white (see image, click for enlargement).

The spine and lower cover are black with white lettering. Smith of Wootton Major is on pp. 7-46, Farmer Giles of Ham on pp. 47-114, and Leaf by Niggle on pp. 115-44. Three illustrations by Pauline Baynes from Farmer Giles are reproduced on pp. 3, 7, and 47. On page 115 at the beginning of Leaf by Niggle is an awkward angular tree by an unnamed artist, roughly based on Baynes' illustration of Garm finding Chrysophylax's tail coiled around a tree.

Bound in light green cloth with the publisher's name and the title stamped in silver on the spine. The dust-jacket by Guusje Kaayk is shaded blue, and on the upper cover shows Niggle standing before his paint­ing which is framed in an oval of leaves. Against the sky in black is the title of the book, and below this, much smaller, is a list of contents (see image, click for enlargement). The publisher's name and the title are printed in black on the spine. On the lower cover is a blurb in black on a shaded green ground within an oval of leaves. Tolkien's introduction to Tree and Leaf is on pp. 9-10, On Fairy-Stories on pp. 11-79, Leaf by Niggle on pp. 80-100, Smith of Wootton Major on pp. 101-129, and Farmer Giles of Ham on pp. 131-80. There are no illustrations.

Bound in dark green cloth with the Tolkien-logo blind-stamped on the upper cover, and the publisher's name, the Tolkien-logo, and the title stamped in silver on the spine. The Studio Spectrum dust-jacket has a dark green ground. On the upper cover is the title in blue, and much smaller, a list of contents in white. The Tolkien illustration in the medallions on the upper cover and spine is a small detail of The Elvenking's Gate (see image, click for enlargement).

The contents are identical to the 1977 printing.

The upper cover has an illustration by Inger Edelfeldt (Oliphaunt), once in full and once a detail from it, and a blurb. Tolkien's name and the title of the book are printed in gold, the name of the publisher in black (see image, click for enlargement).

It has a silver cover designed by Studio Jan de Boer, with in the middle a medallion with a drawing by Erik Kriek (Ham seen through the legs of the giant) (see image, click for enlargement).

Reprinted at Uitgeverij M ( ISBN 90-225-3522-3) in 2003 and 2004.

The covers have the same Pauline Baynes design, slightly trimmed on all edges, as used on the British and American editions (see image, click for enlargement), and all of her illustrations in one or two colours are included.

This edition was not reprinted by Bert Bakker, but was later printed by Het Spectrum in hardcover, noted as a second printing.

Bound in blue cloth with the Tolkien-logo blind-stamped on the upper cover, and the publisher's name, the Tolkien-logo, and the title stamped in silver on the spine. The Studio Spectrum design dust-jacket is red with the title in grey. The Tolkien illustration in the medallion on the upper cover is a detail of Old Man Willow (see image, click for enlargement). It is not repeated on the spine. The endpapers are printed with a carpet pattern of the Tolkien-logo in pale grey. There are no illustrations.

This is identical (see image, click for enlargement) in most respects with the British and American first editions (Hammond Ai4), apart from the Dutch text of course.

The first numbered page is '7' after only the front free endpaper, and one page with title on recto, and copyright notice etc. on verso. It numbers through to 85 on the recto of the back free endpaper. It is called the second printing so presumably Sprookjes was considered the first printing. It has a coloured cover, and black and white endpapers and 18 illustrations within the text by Walt de Rijk. The wraparound cover shows Giles confronting Chrysophylax with dramatic mountains, and the knights riding across a bridge in the background (see image, click for enlargement). On the spine and against the sky at the top of the upper cover is the title and the author's name in white.

This edition was especially made for 'de boekhandels met *)'? [= the bookshops with *)]. These bookshops were Scheltema (Amsterdam), Dekker v.d. Vegt (Arnhem, Nijmegen, Sittard), Gianotten (Breda, Tilburg), Verwijs (Den Haag), Van Piere (Eindhoven), Scholtens Wristers (Groningen), De Tille (Leeuwarden, Sneek), Kooyker Ginsberg (Leiden), Donner (Rotterdam), Broese Wristers (Utrecht).  

The Kaart van Beleriand is printed in black on both endpapers. The map of De rijken van de Noldor en de Sindar is printed in black and red on p. 134.

The book is bound in blue cloth with the Tolkien-logo blind-stamped on the upper cover, and the publisher's name, the Tolkien-logo, and the title stamped in silver on the spine. It has a blue Studio Spectrum dust-jacket with the title in red. The illustration in the medallion on the front is a detail from Tolkien's Glorund Sets Forth to Seek Turin (see image, click for enlargement). The smaller medallion on the spine has the heraldic device of Melian. At first a dust-jacket with another type of lettering and with the drawing of Glorund in full was designed, but I am not sure that it was ever executed.

A paperback edition in the Prisma Series, no. 1915, with the same Studio Spectrum design on the covers as on the dust-jacket (see image, click for enlargement).

The Kaart van Beleriand is printed on pp. [422-3] and De rijken van de Noldor en de Sindar in black and red on p. 134.

It was reprinted twice in 1985.

This is the first printing of De silmarillion as a standard-size paperback.

The covers are red with gold lettering (see image, click for enlargement). The text is reset. The Kaart van Beleriand is printed on pp. 10-11 and De rijken van de Noldor en de Sindar on p. 122 in black only.

This second paperback printing was reset.

The Kaart van Beleriand is printed on pp. 10-11 and De rijken van de Noldor en de Sindar on p. 136 in black only. The covers are similar to the 1991 white covers of De hobbit. The Tolkien illustrations on the upper cover are Gondolin and the Vale of Tumladin from Cristhorn and the heraldic device of Finwe printed as a square and not as a lozenge (see image, click for enlargement). The device is repeated on the spine, and the Gondolin pictured reduced on the lower cover.

Bound in brown cloth, with bookmarker. Brown dust-jacket with white and gold lettering (see image, click for enlargement). The 'Kaart van Beleriand' is printed on p. 10-11, a very bad print by the way, probably based on a bad photocopy. The map with De Rijken van de Noldor en de Sindar is printed in black on p. 136.

Coverdesign: Studio Jan de Boer. Is in a box together with De Hobbit and Nagelaten Vertellingen (ISBN 90 274 6963 6).

With a silver cover designed by Studio Jan de Boer, with in the middle a medallion with a drawing by Erik Kriek (Eärendil with the Silmaril in his ship Vingilot) (see image, click for enlargement). Maps as in the bound edition (2000). second printing as a paperback in the revised translation. The first paperback edition of the revised translation still has the white cover.

The 3rd printing (2002) is the first to appear at Uitgeverij M and has ISBN 90-225-3215-1.

It was reprinted twice in 2003.

Het Spectrum, 1981. Hardcover. 613 + [3] pp. 19.5 x 11.5 cm. ISBN 90-274-7110-x.

Bound in grey cloth with the Tolkien-logo blind-stamped on the upper cover, and the publisher's name, the Tolkien-logo, and the title stamped in silver on the spine. The dust-jacket has the Studio Spectrum design with a dark greenish-grey background and the title in brownish-red (see image, click for enlargement). The Tolkien illustration in the medallions on the upper cover and spine is 'The Coiled Green Dragon'. The map Het westen van Midden-aarde aan het einde van de derde era is printed in black on both endpapers, and the map of Numenor on p. 208.

Revised translation. The map Het westen van Midden-aarde aan het einde van de derde era is printed in black across two pages at the front, and the map of Numenor on p. 196.

Bound in ochre cloth, with bookmarker. Grey dust-jacket with white and gold lettering (see image, click for enlargement).

The Kaart van Midden-aarde is printed on p. [2-3].

Bound in brown cloth, with the Tolkien-logo blind-stamped on the upper cover and the publisher's name, the Tolkien-logo, and the title stamped in silver on the spine.

First printing in the revised translation, in the paperback series with the white covers.

The upper cover has an illustration by Carol Emery Phenix (Gandalf), once in full and once a detail from it, Gandalf's pipe, and a blurb. Tolkien's name and the title of the book are printed in gold, the name of the publisher in black (see image, click for enlargement).

First printing, edited on the occasion of 50 years Douwe Egberts coffee. In the beginning you could get the book only as a gift in return for a number of Douwe Egberts points. The cover illustration by Rien van de Kraan shows the head of an old wizard (see image, click for enlargement).