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T. E. Lawrence

Seven Pillars of Wisdom
The Complete 1922 'Oxford' Text

Subscribers' Library Edition,
Castle Hill Press, 2003, 1,225 numbered copies

The Subscribers' Library Edition is the only edition of the Oxford Seven Pillars currently in print. No further copies of the lower-specification trade edition are available from the publishers, though some booksellers may still hold stock.

The Library Edition is a Castle Hill Press subscription edition, available by direct order only. We cannot offer discount to booksellers.

Specification
896 pages, 16 pages of b&w photographs. Trimmed page size 234 x 156mm. Typeset by Castle Hill Press in 11 point Caslon. Printed on cream acid-free paper by the Cromwell Press.
1,000 numbered copies were produced in a sewn hardback binding by the Cromwell Press: brown cloth (Tele Legatoria Canvas Extra RFA); top edge gilt; ribbon place-marker; head and tail bands; glassine dust-jacket. The coloured endpapers were reproduced from maps prepared by Lawrence for Seven Pillars in 1926.




Book
Contents:
 

  • pp. i-xxvi preliminaries, including contents list, synopsis, and a preface by Jeremy Wilson: 'The Two Texts of Seven Pillars' (pp. xxi-xxvi).

  • pp. 1-813 T. E. Lawrence's full 1922 text of Seven Pillars, hitherto published only in our three-volume 1997 fine-press edition. Preparation for this second edition has included a further comparison of the two source texts by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson, leading to minor amendments and corrections. 

  • pp. 814-820: Appendixes I and II from the subscribers' abridgement of Seven Pillars, i.e. nominal rolls and information from Lawrence's pocket diaries for 1917-18.

  • p. 820 Editor's note.

  • pp. 821-870 Index by Hazel K. Bell (this index won the Wheatley Medal)

This traditionally bound edition is only available direct from Castle Hill Press.

Below, from left to right:

  • Subscribers' Library Edition, cloth issue (1,000 numbered copies)

  • Full-goatskin issue (45 numbered copies, out of print)

  • Trade Edition (out of print)

  • Quarter-goatskin issue (180 numbered copies)


 

 

Above, from left to right, illustrations, a typical text opening, and the front and rear map endpapers. Click on the thumbnails to see the pictures enlarged in a new window
 

Update 1 March 2008 - See also Seven Pillars Portraits

 

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T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text.
Library edition (Castle Hill Press, 2003)  cloth issue.
Edition of 1,000 numbered copies.
 

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Shipped by air to your country via Spring (part of TNT) - then delivered by your national postal service.
Usually takes about three weeks.
Packed weight 2kg.

Subscribers' Library edition, cloth issue, one of 1,000 numbered copies this. Total price £56.00 = £45 + 11.00 shipping by priority service, packing and insurance.

For delivery to an address in the UK
Royal Mail Standard Parcel service - 3-5 days

Subscribers' Library Edition, cloth issue, one of 1,000 numbered copies this. Total price £52.00 = £45 + 7.00 post, packing and insurance/

A trade edition, produced to a lower specification and now out of print, was published by J. and N. Wilson in 2004

The quarter-goatskin and full-goatskin bindings
The quarter-goatskin and full-goatskin bindings
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