T.E. Lawrence

Wilson, Jeremy Michael

Published by London National Portrait Gallery Publications 1988, 1988

LIMITED EDITION of 75 specially-bound copies of which this is numbered '15/75' and SIGNED by the author. Publisher's original half blue crushed morocco over marbled boards by Shepherd & Co., London. Spine divided into compartments by raised bands and lettered directly in gilt in two, black endpapers, top edge sprinkled blue. In a blue cloth slipcase with blue morocco trim. Quarto (296 x 217mm). pp. viii, 248. Jeremy Wilson's authoritative and well-illustrated catalogue, published to accompany the major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery on the occasion of the centenary of Lawrence's birth. The exhibition contained a large number of items drawn from private and public collections including those of All Souls College, Oxford, the Bodleian Library, the British Library, the Imperial War Museum, and the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London and a significant number of them were previously unpublished. All but one of the introductory essays which preface the eight sections were adapted from a previously unpublished biography of Lawrence, which Wilson and Ian Wood wrote in 1986; the essay on Seven Pillars of Wisdom was adapted from the text of a talk which Wilson gave to the Oxford Bibliographical Society in 1985. The catalogue was issued in cloth-bound and wrappers issues, and also limited issue of seventy-five signed copies, bound in half crushed morocco by Shepherds & Co, as here. These copies are bound in different coloured leathers, including blue (as here), brown, and red (as O'Brien); the blue binding is particularly attractive, since it echoes the Royal Air Force blue of the binding of The Mint. O'Brien E424. Seller Inventory # 103031

Bibliographic Details

Title: T.E. Lawrence
Publisher: London National Portrait Gallery Publications 1988
Publication Date: 1988
Binding: Soft cover
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition