Captain Shakespear. A Portrait,

Winstone, H.V.F.

Published by London Jonathan Cape Ltd 1976, 1976

About this Item

First Edition, first impression. Publisher's brown cloth with filt lettering to spine and map endpapers. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to the illustrated dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. [1-9] 10-236 [2] with 16 pages of photographs. A Jonathan Cape Review Slip laid in. Verso of front free endpaper bearing the bookplate of J.M. Wilson, the T.E. Lawrence scholar, who included the book in 'Works Received and Forthcoming' section of 'T.E. Lawrence Studies' [1976]. A book in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dust-jacket which is not price-clipped. William Henry Shakespear, 1878-1915, was one of the important Arabian travellers at the beginning of the twentieth century. However, he is not in DNB, and little information about him has hitherto been available. Lawrence did not meet him, although he is referred to in Ch. XLV of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. "He was one of those Englishmen Kipling delighted to picture. Nothing daunted him; he lived for enterprise and rejoiced in the handling of men; the more difficult and dangerous the job, the better it pleased him. He bore an English name not easy to add glory to, yet he succeeded' - The World, February 23rd, 1915.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Captain Shakespear. A Portrait,
• Publisher: London Jonathan Cape Ltd 1976
• Publication Date: 1976
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • MILITARY HISTORY
  • TRAVEL and EXPLORATION
  • T.E. LAWRENCE