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LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). The Foundations of Arab Revolt. [S.l.: 1925].
4° (255 x 195mm). Colour-printed collotype frontispiece, line illustration after Eric Kennington. Original wrappers (a little darkened and marked). Provenance: Sir Herbert Baker (1862-1946, ownership inscription on front free endpaper 'Herbert Baker 14 Barton St SW1 Aug. 1925')
Second state, one of c. 100 copies, FROM THE LIBRARY OF LAWRENCE'S FRIEND THE ARCHITECT SIR HERBERT BAKER, and inscribed with Baker's address where Lawrence rewrote much of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Lawrence had met Baker -- already acclaimed as an architect for his work in South Africa -- in Oxford shortly after the Great War, a meeting Baker recalled thus: 'I was at once fascinated by his laughing, roving blue eyes and his high domed forehead, which gave the distinction of intellect and an assurance of high character with the power of both thought and action' (A.W. Lawrence (ed.) T.E. Lawrence by his Friends, London: 1937, p. 248). After the loss of the manuscript of Seven Pillars of Wisdom at Reading Station, Baker lent Lawrence an attic room above his office at 14 Barton Street, Westminster, where Lawrence wrote most of the second and third drafts of the work, protected from the intrusions of unwanted callers, as he recorded in the acknowledgements of the 'Subscriber's' edition of Seven Pillars: 'Sir Herbert Baker let me live and work in his Westminster houses' (p. [VI]). The two men remained friends and the Barton Street garret remained a refuge for Lawrence when he required a base in London or a respite from publicity (later, some of his translation of the Odyssey would be written there); after his death, Baker contributed a memoir of him to T.E. Lawrence by his Friends. O'Brien A036.
4° (255 x 195mm). Colour-printed collotype frontispiece, line illustration after Eric Kennington. Original wrappers (a little darkened and marked). Provenance: Sir Herbert Baker (1862-1946, ownership inscription on front free endpaper 'Herbert Baker 14 Barton St SW1 Aug. 1925')
Second state, one of c. 100 copies, FROM THE LIBRARY OF LAWRENCE'S FRIEND THE ARCHITECT SIR HERBERT BAKER, and inscribed with Baker's address where Lawrence rewrote much of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Lawrence had met Baker -- already acclaimed as an architect for his work in South Africa -- in Oxford shortly after the Great War, a meeting Baker recalled thus: 'I was at once fascinated by his laughing, roving blue eyes and his high domed forehead, which gave the distinction of intellect and an assurance of high character with the power of both thought and action' (A.W. Lawrence (ed.) T.E. Lawrence by his Friends, London: 1937, p. 248). After the loss of the manuscript of Seven Pillars of Wisdom at Reading Station, Baker lent Lawrence an attic room above his office at 14 Barton Street, Westminster, where Lawrence wrote most of the second and third drafts of the work, protected from the intrusions of unwanted callers, as he recorded in the acknowledgements of the 'Subscriber's' edition of Seven Pillars: 'Sir Herbert Baker let me live and work in his Westminster houses' (p. [VI]). The two men remained friends and the Barton Street garret remained a refuge for Lawrence when he required a base in London or a respite from publicity (later, some of his translation of the Odyssey would be written there); after his death, Baker contributed a memoir of him to T.E. Lawrence by his Friends. O'Brien A036.
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