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LAWRENCE, T.E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a triumph. [London: Privately Printed], 1926.
4o. Printed in red and black. 66 plates, including frontispiece portrait of Feisal by Augustus John, many colored or tinted, 4 double-page, by Eric Kennington, William Roberts, Augustus John, William Nicholson, Paul Nash and others; 4 folding colored maps, 58 illustrations in text, one colored, by Roberts, Nash, Kennington, Blair-Hughes-Stanton, Gerturde Hermes and others, initials by Edward Wadsworth. (A few plate captions cropped, frontispiece map creased, two folding maps with linen reinforcement at folds on verso.) Dark brown morocco, covers with double gilt fillet outer border framing a panel border of double strapwork with interlocking corners, enclosing a gilt fillet panel, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in one, gilt-panelled with interlocking corners in the rest, pictorial endpapers with Eric Kennington illustrations (minute wear to extremities); fleece-lined gold quarter niger case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Provenance: Oppenheimer (bookplate).
PRIVATELY PRINTED EDITION, limited to about 170 "complete" subscriber's copies, INSCRIBED BY LAWRENCE on p. XIX "Complete copy. 1.XII.26 TES.", with a single additional manuscript correction to the illustration list.
This copy includes the "Prickly Pear" plate, but not the two Paul Nash illustrations called for on pages 92 and 208, nor the extra Blair-Hughes-Stanton wood engraving (found in some copies illustrating the dedicatory poem). In this copy, page XV is mis-paginated as VIII. Clements p. 49 (stating that "only about 100 copies were produced at 30 guineas each"); O'Brien A040.
4o. Printed in red and black. 66 plates, including frontispiece portrait of Feisal by Augustus John, many colored or tinted, 4 double-page, by Eric Kennington, William Roberts, Augustus John, William Nicholson, Paul Nash and others; 4 folding colored maps, 58 illustrations in text, one colored, by Roberts, Nash, Kennington, Blair-Hughes-Stanton, Gerturde Hermes and others, initials by Edward Wadsworth. (A few plate captions cropped, frontispiece map creased, two folding maps with linen reinforcement at folds on verso.) Dark brown morocco, covers with double gilt fillet outer border framing a panel border of double strapwork with interlocking corners, enclosing a gilt fillet panel, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in one, gilt-panelled with interlocking corners in the rest, pictorial endpapers with Eric Kennington illustrations (minute wear to extremities); fleece-lined gold quarter niger case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Provenance: Oppenheimer (bookplate).
PRIVATELY PRINTED EDITION, limited to about 170 "complete" subscriber's copies, INSCRIBED BY LAWRENCE on p. XIX "Complete copy. 1.XII.26 TES.", with a single additional manuscript correction to the illustration list.
This copy includes the "Prickly Pear" plate, but not the two Paul Nash illustrations called for on pages 92 and 208, nor the extra Blair-Hughes-Stanton wood engraving (found in some copies illustrating the dedicatory poem). In this copy, page XV is mis-paginated as VIII. Clements p. 49 (stating that "only about 100 copies were produced at 30 guineas each"); O'Brien A040.