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Works
Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula
The Mint, 1928 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
15 November 2008
T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text
Castle Hill Press 1997. Out of print
SPECIFICATION - standard issue
Three volumes, numbered in Volume II. Spine height: 28.8cm. Trimmed page size 282 x 200mm.
Quarter-cloth issue
650 sets (of 752), numbered 101-750.
Vols I and II, text
- Vol. I: Introduction and Books I-V, 456 pages.
- Vol. II: Books VI-X, editorial notes, 456 pages.
Typeset by Castle Hill Press in Caslon, Lawrence's preferred typeface. Printed by Cambridge University Press on 80g.s.m. Supreme Bookwove, a high-quality acid-free off-white book paper, and bound by The Fine Bindery in quarter cream Rohalbleinen cloth with grey Fabriano Tiziano boards. Top edges stained, coloured endpapers, head and tail bands. Issued in dust jackets.
- Vol. III: Illustrations
152 pages
Part I (in colour): Forty-one Seven Pillars Portraits reproduced full-page - twenty-six are in full colour - as in Lawrence's 1926 subscribers' edition.
Part II: eighty-eight war photographs, mainly from the collection Lawrence formed and presented to the Imperial War Museum.
Originally printed in colour and duotone by T.G. Hostench SA of Barcelona on 115gsm matt art, and bound in cream Rohalbleinen cloth, with limp boards. This Spanish printing was found to be defective and relatively few copies were issued. Replacement copies were printed in England by The Burlington Press. Issued in dust jacket.
The three volumes were issued in a cloth-covered slip-case.
Extra-illustrated sets produced for subscribers
Of the 650 sets quarter-cloth sets, 75 included an extra matching portfolio containing a proof set of the Seven Pillars portraits, printed on one side only of a heavy paper. These proofs were printed by the original Spanish printers of the book of illustrations, which was reprinted in England when the first printing was found to be defective. The same set of proofs (in a different-coloured portfolio) accompanied the full-leather 'specials'.
The three volumes and the portfolio of proof portraits were issued in a cloth-covered slip-case.
These extra-illustrated sets were issued to subscribers only.
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