T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom THE COMPLETE 1922 TEXT Castle
Hill Press 1997, out of print Specification Three volumes, numbered in Volume II. Spine height: 28.8cm. Trimmed page size 282 x 200mm. Quarter-cloth issue Vols
I and II, Text Typeset by Castle Hill Press in Caslon, Lawrence's preferred typeface. Printed by Cambridge University Press on 80g.s.m. Supreme Bookwove, a high-quality acid-free off-white book paper, and bound by The Fine Bindery in quarter cream Rohalbleinen cloth with grey Fabriano Tiziano boards. Top edges stained, coloured endpapers, head and tail bands. Issued in dust jackets.
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Vol. III:
Illustrations
Part I (in colour):
Forty-one Seven Pillars Portraits reproduced full-page
- twenty-six are in full colour - as in Lawrence's 1926 subscribers' edition. Originally printed in colour and duotone by T.G. Hostench SA of Barcelona on 115gsm matt art, and bound in cream Rohalbleinen cloth, with limp boards. This Spanish printing was found to be defective and relatively few were issued. Replacement copies were printed in England by The Burlington Press. Issued in dust jacket.
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Click on thumbnails. Larger images will open in a new window The three volumes are issued in a cloth-covered slip-case. Out of print We are sometimes aware of copies available privately or in the antiquarian book trade, so if you are looking for a copy it is worth contacting us.
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Size comparison: a 1997 quarter-cloth set (left) shown with dust-jackets and slipcase, next to a copy of Jonathan Cape's 1935 edition of the subscribers' abridgement. On the right is a copy of the 2003 Subscribers' Library Edition of the 1922 Text. Extra-illustrated sets produced for subscribers Of the 650 sets quarter-cloth sets, 75 included an extra matching portfolio containing a proof set of the Seven Pillars portraits, printed on one side only of a heavy paper. These proofs were printed by the original Spanish printers of the book of illustrations, which was reprinted in England when the first printing was found to be defective. The same set of proofs (in a different-coloured portfolio) accompanied the full-leather 'specials'. The three volumes and the portfolio of proof portraits were issued in a cloth-covered slip-case. These extra-illustrated sets were issued to subscribers only. Out of print We try to keep track of copies available privately or in the antiquarian book trade, so if you are looking for a copy it is worth contacting us.
Reformatted January 2007
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