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Castle
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T. E. Lawrence Letters, Volumes I-IV
Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw
Edited
by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson
Forewords by Jeremy Wilson
Indexes by Hazel K. Bell
Specification
The edition is limited to 702 four-volume sets,
to be numbered in the final volume. Tall octavo, trimmed page-size 282 x 176 mm. Typeset in Garamond by Castle Hill Press.
Printed on high-quality 100 g.s.m. acid-free paper.
A rigid slipcase will be issued
with Volume IV. In the interim, Vols. I-III will be issued in protective card
slip-cases. Quarter-goatskin bindings
45 sets, numbered 56-100, bound by The Fine Bindery in quarter brown goatskin with cloth sides; top edge gilt,
head and tail bands, hand-marbled end-papers by Ann Muir. This
brown quarter-leather binding will be uniform for the entire
T.E.Lawrence Letters series. Full-goatskin bindings
40 sets, numbered 16-55, 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, head and tail
bands, hand-marbled end-papers by Ann Muir. Designer binding
15 sets, numbered 1-15, bound by The Fine Bindery in a specially commissioned inlaid goatskin
binding designed by Glenn Bartley, a Fellow of Designer
Bookbinders. Two additional copies, lettered 'A' and 'B',
are reserved for the publisher. Volume
I, 1922-1926 (published in 2000)
248
pages + 16 pages of facsimiles. Printed
by Cambridge University Press Volume
II, 1927 (published in 2003)
256 pages+ 16 pages of facsimiles. Printed by St. Edmundsbury
Press. Volumes
III and IV forthcoming
Vol. I, full-goatskin
binding, 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.
Hand-marbled
endpaper by Ann Muir
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.
Standard cloth bindings
Other Castle Hill Press 'specials'
Introduction to the T. E. Lawrence Letters
series
General 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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