Sorting these covers by decade
The Hobbit by decade
J.R.R. Tolkien
211 covers from 269 printings with a known year, 2020s back to 1930s
2020s
11 covers · 5 of 14 printings say hardcover · 13 publishers, Minotauro and Houghton Mifflin among them · 4 languages
2010s
53 covers · 34 of 72 printings say paperback · 39 publishers, HarperCollins Publishers and Minotauro among them · 13 languages
2000s
61 covers · 29 of 77 printings say paperback · 54 publishers, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd and HarperCollins among them · 14 languages
1990s
28 covers · 22 of 48 printings say paperback · 32 publishers, Minotauro and Evertype among them · 8 languages
1980s
20 covers · 9 of 21 printings say paperback · 16 publishers, Unwin Paperbacks and Houghton Mifflin Company among them · 4 languages
1970s
24 covers · 16 of 29 printings say paperback · 16 publishers, Ballantine Books and Houghton Mifflin Company among them · 5 languages
1960s
6 covers · 6 of 10 printings say paperback · 7 publishers, Mariner Books and Ballantine Books among them · 2 languages
1950s
3 covers · 2 of 5 printings say paperback · 5 publishers, Del Rey Books and Ballantine Books among them · 3 languages
1930s
4 covers · 2 of 5 printings say hardcover · 5 publishers, The Random House Publishing Group and George Allen & Unwin among them
No year on record
1 cover
Covers from Open Library, each in the decade of the earliest printing that carries it. What the catalogues never scanned is missing here too. See the whole wall.
