T. E. Lawrence Letters, Volume I Series Editor: Jeremy Wilson; Volume Editors: Jeremy and Nicole Wilson Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw 1922-1926 With a Foreword by Jeremy Wilson
Specification
248 pages. The edition
was limited to 702 three-volume sets, numbered in the final volume. Tall octavo, trimmed page-size 282 x 176 mm. Typeset in Garamond by Castle Hill Press. Printed
by Cambridge University Press on 100 g.s.m. high-quality acid-free paper.
Vol.
I (published
spring 2000). Cloth issue,
ISBN 1 873141 27 0: 600 copies
bound in green cloth by the MPG Books (formerly Hartnoll's); top edge gilt, coloured end-papers, head and tail bands, dust
jacket.
Quarter-goatskin binding (a standard series binding) with additional facsimiles 45 copies,
bound by The Fine Bindery in quarter brown goatskin with cloth sides; top edge gilt, hand-marbled end-papers by Ann Muir, with
sixteen pages of facsimile letters not in the standard edition.
Full-goatskin binding with additional facsimiles 40 copies,
bound by The Fine Bindery in full green goatskin. The blind-stamped decoration on the front cover, with clover-leaves and interlinked 'S's, is adapted from the 1927 design by C & C McLeish for the Shaws' copy of the subscribers' Seven Pillars. All edges gilt, hand-marbled end-papers by Ann Muir, head and tail
bands, with sixteen pages of facsimile letters not in the
standard edition. 
Vol. I,
subscribers' full-leather issue, one of 40 copies.
The binding design is based on the design by C & C McLeish
for the Shaws' copy of the 1926 Seven Pillars.
The quarter-leather and full-leather issues contain
sixteen extra pages of facsimiles.
Hand-marbled
endpaper by Ann Muir
Designer binding 15 copies,
as above but bound in a specially commissioned inlaid goatskin binding. Designed by Glenn Bartley, a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders, and bound by The Fine Bindery. 
One of 15
copies, numbered 1-15, of the edition of 702 copies. In-lay
and on-lay goatskin binding by The Fine Bindery to a
specially commissioned design by Glenn Bartley. We intend to
commission a small specially designed issue of each volume
in the Letters series, inviting leading contemporary binding
designers to contribute, so that the series will build into
a remarkable collection of binding design at the beginning
of the twenty-first century.
Two additional copies, lettered 'A' and 'B',
are reserved for the publisher.
Specification
for Volume II, 1927
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