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T. E. Lawrence Letters, Volume III

Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1928

Edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson
With a Foreword by Jeremy Wilson


Provisional specification

Length approx. 260 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.

Note: All copies ordered before publication directly from Castle Hill Press will be bound with an additional leaf, probably containing some kind of illustration.

Cloth issue:

600 copies bound in green cloth; top edge gilt, coloured end-papers, head and tail bands, dust jacket. 
Price if purchased on its own £115.  

Quarter-goatskin binding

45 copies (sets to be numbered 56-100) bound 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. 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. II; price for the two volumes on application. 

Two additional copies, lettered 'A' and 'B', are reserved for the publisher.

Prospectus for the Lawrence-Shaw correspondence 
Foreword by Jeremy Wilson to Volume I, 1922-1926
Foreword by Jeremy Wilson to Volume II, 1927
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Revised June 2006

 


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