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The drawing of Hobbiton was the frontispiece to the original impression of The Hobbit, 1937, which had no coloured pictures, and it has not been published since. The painting appeared as frontispiece to the second English impression of the same year, and in the first American edition, 1938. It was reproduced in The J. R. R. Tolkien Calendars 1973 and 1974, and in The HobbitCalendar 1976.
There are only very slight differences between the two renderings, most notably in the windows of the mill and in the words on the signpost, which in the drawing directs the traveller to Bag-End but in the painting to the Hill.
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