Notes: 16-line printing history on copyright page with line 16 reading: Third edition (sixteenth impression) 1966. [Currey] Revised text The Third Edition represented first by this book and the contemporary Longmans hardcover contains the second resetting of the text that incorporates a version of the revision Tolkien prepared in 1965, the last that he prepared. Slightly different versions of the same revision were incorporated in other revised editions and all of them introduced new typesetting errors. --The Annotated Hobbit (1st ed., 1988), Appendix A