CATALOGUE
Works
Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula
The Mint, 1928 text
The Mint, 1955 text
Translation
The Forest Giant
Letters
T. E. Lawrence Letters series
Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw
Correspondence with Henry Williamson
Correspondence with E. M. Forster and others
Letters from Carchemish
12 November 2008
The Castle Hill Press edition of T. E. Lawrence's works and letters
The Castle Hill Press edition of T. E. Lawrence's works and letters combines scholarly content with high production standards. It is essential to any significant T. E. Lawrence collection. Jeremy Wilson, who is responsible for the series, wrote Lawrence's authorised biography.
One of T. E. Lawrence's enduring ambitions was to run a private press. His subscribers' Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926) and the Bruce Rogers Odyssey (1932) are among the best known press books of the twentieth century. Other fine-press editions of his writing followed, as shown by the list here.
Castle Hill Press typesetting is hand-adjusted on screen to rigorous house
rules. The books are printed litho and offered in bindings that range from
hard-wearing cloth to goatskin specials with additional content.
In 2000-2001 the master binding commissioned from Glenn Bartley for the
twenty 'extra-special' sets of the 1997 edition of Seven Pillars of
Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text was one of fifty selected bindings in the Designer
Binders exhibition that toured North America. The index commissioned from Hazel
Bell for the 2003 Library Edition of Seven Pillars won the Wheatley
Medal, Britain's premier indexing award. Hazel has indexed every volume in
the
T. E. Lawrence Letters series.
Castle Hill Press sells direct to individuals and institutions, largely through the online shop. More than half the books go overseas. This website includes detailed information about each publication. Updates on the News page track projects and subscription offers.
Advance subscribers to Castle Hill Press editions benefit from large discounts on the published price. There are also discounts of 10-25% for new direct customers who order several previously-published volumes at once.
Castle Hill Press sponsors www.telawrence.info, the leading T. E. Lawrence educational website, which is edited by Jeremy Wilson.
Forthcoming
T. E. Lawrence, The Mint and Later Writings about Service Life
1928 text, with an appendix of letters
Introduction by Jeremy Wilson
Forthcoming, scheduled for early 2010
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NEWS
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Customer feedback
Some comments from the customer feedback page on our old website:
. . . I couldn't be more pleased. The attention to detail, and conception of this edition, are wonderful . . .
I cannot praise too highly the quality of the production, with exceptional clarity and beauty of print, the erudition of editing, and the excellent on-line service. Important correspondence in beautiful books - the perfect combination.
. . .Excellence in research and editing, and magnificently produced books in superb bindings. Last but not least, efficient and friendly service, with books posted in rock solid packaging.
. . . These books are a pleasure to own and read . . .
. . . a quite invaluable job in publishing (very beautifully . . .) many of the writings of TEL which hitherto have been available only in manuscript form in museums, libraries or private collections, or in out-of-print books which are very hard to obtain.An excellent set of publications that are beautifully edited and produced. A wonderful addition to my library and to any library.