CATALOGUE
Works
'The Mint' [1928 text] and Later Writings About Service Life
Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula
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
Letters from Carchemish
28 August 2010
CASTLE HILL PRESS
Jeremy and Nicole Wilson
'The Mint' and Later Writings About Service Life
'The Mint' and Later Writings About Service Life takes up Lawrence's idea of adding a fourth section to The Mint, based on his experiences in the RAF between 1927 and 1935.
The book opens with his original 1928 text of The Mint, as written before he made changes in response to readers' comments. For the years 1927-1935 we have chosen around 330 extracts - from a line or two to pages - from the thousands of his letters copied during research for the Authorized Biography.
There are two editions, in formats and bindings that complement our 1997 and 2003 editions of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text.
- Large-format (like our 1997 Seven Pillars) 277 numbered copies. Bindings similar to the
1997 quarter-cloth and full goatskin bindings. This large-format edition also contains a
selection of Lawrence's writings about The Mint.
prospectus | specification - Library Edition format (like our 2003 Seven Pillars) 475 numbered copies. Bindings
similar to the 2003 cloth, quarter-goatskin and full-goatskin bindings.
prospectus | specification
Above: Library Edition, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text (2003) and The Mint, 1928 text, and Later Writings about Service Life (2010). Shown left to right are quarter-goatskin, full-goatskin and cloth bindings. Click on the image to view it larger in a new window.
The Castle Hill Press edition of T. E. Lawrence's works and letters
The Castle Hill Press edition of T. E. Lawrence's works and letters combines scholarly content with high production standards. The range of writing included, much of it published here for the first time, has made the edition essential to any significant T. E. Lawrence collection. Jeremy Wilson, who is responsible for the series, wrote Lawrence's authorised biography.
All Castle Hill Press books are initially printed for a group of private and library subscribers. These subscribers order before details of the edition are publicly announced and enjoy various advantages. For example, there have been several occasions when a late change to the production specification has significantly increased cost. The additional cost is reflected in the publication price, but in the subscription price.
Once the private subscription offer has closed, details of the edition are announced publicly on our website and, from September 2010, to the book trade.
The T. E. Lawrence fine-press tradition
One of T. E. Lawrence's enduring ambitions was to set up and run a private press. This never came about, but he organised the production of his subscribers' Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926) and translated Homer's Odyssey for an edition designed by Bruce Rogers (1932). These are among the best known press books of the twentieth century. Other fine-press editions of his writing followed (see list).
Our typesetting is hand-adjusted on screen to fine-press standards, following rigorous house rules. Our books are printed litho and offered in bindings that range from hard-wearing cloth to goatskin 'specials' with additional content.
The quality of our publishing and the work we commission is widely recognised. In 2000-2001 the master binding commissioned from Glenn Bartley for the twenty 'extra-special' sets of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text (1997) was one of fifty selected bindings in the Designer Binders exhibition that toured North America. The index commissioned from Hazel Bell for the one-volume Library Edition of Seven Pillars (2003) won the Wheatley Medal, Britain's premier indexing award. Hazel has indexed every volume in the T. E. Lawrence Letters series.
In addition to sales to subscribers and through the book trade, we sell forthcoming titles and editions in print direct to individuals and institutions, largely through our Online Shop. More than half of our direct sales go to customers overseas.
This website includes detailed information about each publication. Updates on the News page track projects and shipping dates.
We also sponsor, and Jeremy Wilson edits, the leading educational website about T.E. Lawrence: www.telawrence.info.
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For progress reports on our current projects, please check our News page.
For more general comment about our projects, publishing and T.E. Lawrence, see Jeremy Wilson's blog
Customer feedback
Some comments from the customer feedback page on our old website:
. . . I couldn't be more pleased. The attention to detail, and conception of this edition, are wonderful . . .
I cannot praise too highly the quality of the production, with exceptional clarity and beauty of print, the erudition of editing, and the excellent on-line service. Important correspondence in beautiful books - the perfect combination.
. . .Excellence in research and editing, and magnificently produced books in superb bindings. Last but not least, efficient and friendly service, with books posted in rock solid packaging.
. . . These books are a pleasure to own and read . . .
. . . a quite invaluable job in publishing (very beautifully . . .) many of the writings of TEL which hitherto have been available only in manuscript form in museums, libraries or private collections, or in out-of-print books which are very hard to obtain.
An excellent set of publications that are beautifully edited and produced. A wonderful addition to my library and to any library.