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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
12 November 2008
T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text
Subscribers' Library Edition, 2003
SPECIFICATION - special issues
For details of the size, printing and content see the specification for the Subscribers' Library Edition (cloth copies)
Quarter-goatskin
180 numbered copies Bound by The Fine Bindery in quarter Nigerian goatskin with cloth sides. Top edge gilt, ribbon place marker, head and tail bands. Issued either in a temporary glassine dust-jacket or a black slip-case.
Out of print
Full goatskin
45 numbered copies bound by The Fine Bindery in full Nigerian goatskin (copies 1-5 in Oxford blue; copies 6-45 in brown). Gilt design on the front cover and spine based on one of the bindings for Lawrence's 1926 Subscribers' edition. All edges gilt, ribbon place marker, head and tail bands.
Issued in a rigid slip-case, accompanied by a 34-page booklet by Jeremy Wilson containing a history of the edition and a discussion of differences between the 1922 text and the subscribers' abridgement.
Out of print
A paper portfolio in the slipcase includes the two maps and the companion booklet by Jeremy Wilson titled 'Publishing the Oxford Text of Seven Pillars of Wisdom'.
100 numbered and signed copies of the booklet were printed. Of these, 45 accompany full-leather copies of the Subscribers' Library Edition. The remaining 55 were bound with a plain card cover. Contents:
I: History of this Seven Pillars Project (pp. 3-8) - you can read a similar text here.
II: The early History of Seven Pillars (pp. 9-13)
III: Seven Pillars puzzles (pp. 13-16)
IV: Which text is better written? (pp. 16-19)
V: Typographical Tinkering (pp. 19-21)
VI: Unbalanced abridgement (pp. 21-27)
VII: Conclusion (pp. 27-8)
Notes (pp. 28-31)
Sections II-VII are a much-expanded version of the preface to the Subscribers' Library Edition. They embody the results of research carried out after its publication. In a large measure, the question about Lawrence's motives for the heavy cuts to the second half of the subscribers' Seven Pillars are now answered. This material is now online, in two parts:
See also The Seven Pillars Portraits
Related pages
- Prospectus for this edition
- Specification: standard issue
- History of the Castle Hill Press edition of the 1922 Seven Pillars
- 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Triumph and Tragedy', on the T.E. Lawrence Studies website
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