CATALOGUE
Works
Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula
The Mint, 1928 text
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
12 November 2008
T. E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw 1922-1935
With a Foreword by Jeremy Wilson
Fine-press edition printed for subscribers
Four volumes.
- Vol. I: 1922-1926
- Vol. II: 1927
- Vol. III: 1928
- Vol. IV: 1929-1935
SPECIFICATION - special issues
Tall octavo, trimmed page-size 282 x 176 mm. Typeset in Garamond by Castle Hill Press. Printed by Cambridge University Press on high-quality 100 g.s.m. acid-free paper.
The Lawrence-Shaw letters edition is limited to 475 four-volume sets, numbered in Volume IV (prior to Vol. IV the intended limitation was 702 sets).
Additional content in the special issues
Each volume in these special issues contains an additional sixteen pages of facsimiles or illustrations not in the standard edition.
- Vol. I: xx + 228 [=248] pages, frontis. port., index by Hazel K. Bell + 16 pages of facsimiles not in the standard edition
- Vol. II: xviii +238 [=256] pages, frontis photo. + another p.93, index by Hazel K. Bell + 16 pages of facsimiles not in the standard edition
- Vol. III: xiv+250 [=264] pages, frontis. photo. + another p.211 and 2 photographs on a fold-out leaf between pp. 146 and 147, index by Hazel K. Bell + 16 pages of photographs not in the standard edition
- Vol. IV: xxii+284 (=304) pages. frontis., illus., index by Hazel K. Bell + 16 pages of photographs not in the standard edition
Quarter-goatskin binding
45 sets, numbered 56-100, bound in quarter brown goatskin with brown cloth sides; top edge gilt, hand-marbled end-papers by Ann Muir. Issued in a rigid slip-case.
This is a series binding: all volumes in the T.E. Lawrence Letters series will be offered bound in a similar quarter-goatskin binding.
Full-goatskin binding
40 copies (sets to be numbered 16-55) bound in full green goatskin. The blind-stamped decoration on the front cover, with clover-leaves and interlinked 'S's, is adapted from the 1927 design by C & C McLeish for the Shaws' copy of the subscribers' Seven Pillars. All edges gilt, hand-marbled end-papers by Ann Muir, head and tail bands. In rigid slip-case.
Designer binding
15 copies, numbered 1-15, bound in a specially commissioned inlaid goatskin binding designed by Glenn Bartley, a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders.
Two additional copies, lettered 'A' and 'B', are reserved for the publisher.
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