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T. E. Lawrence Letters, Volume II
Series Editor: Jeremy Wilson; Volume Editors: Jeremy and Nicole Wilson
Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw 1927 With a Foreword by Jeremy
Wilson
Specification 256 pages. The
Lawrence-Shaw letters edition
will be limited to 702 sets, numbered in the final volume. Tall octavo, trimmed page-size 282 x 176 mm. Typeset in Garamond by Castle Hill Press. Printed
on a high-quality 100 g.s.m. acid-free paper.
Standard issue: 600 copies bound in green cloth; top edge gilt, coloured end-papers, head and tail bands, dust jacket.
Quarter-goatskin binding (the standard series binding) 45
copies (sets to be numbered 56-100) bound in brown green 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. Issued
in a card slip-case (a rigid slip-case for the set will be
available with the final volume). This is a series binding: every volume in the
T.E. Lawrence Letters series will be offered in this style.
Full-goatskin binding with additional facsimiles 40
copies (sets to be numbered 16-55) bound 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.
Issued in a card slip-case (a rigid slip-case for the set will be
available with the final volume).
Designer binding 15 copies, numbered 1-15, bound in a specially commissioned inlaid goatskin
binding designed by Glenn Bartley, a Fellow of Designer
Bookbinders.
To be issued with Vol. III.
Two additional copies, lettered 'A' and 'B',
are reserved for the publisher.
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