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Works

Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula

First public edition, 2008

The Mint, 1928 text

Translation

The Forest Giant

Parallel French/English text, hardback, 2004

Letters

T. E. Lawrence Letters series

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12 November 2008

T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text

Subscribers' Library Edition,

Castle Hill Press, 2003, 1,225 numbered copies

The Subscribers' Library Edition is the only hardback edition of the Oxford Seven Pillars currently in print. It is a subscription edition, available by direct order only.

SPECIFICATION - standard issue

896 pages, 16 pages of b&w photographs. Trimmed page size 234 x 156mm. Typeset by Castle Hill Press in 11 point Caslon. Printed on cream acid-free paper by the Cromwell Press. 1,000 numbered copies were produced in a sewn hardback binding by the Cromwell Press: brown cloth (Tele Legatoria Canvas Extra RFA); top edge gilt; ribbon place-marker; head and tail bands; glassine dust-jacket. The coloured endpapers were reproduced from maps prepared by Lawrence for Seven Pillars in 1926.

Contents:

pp. i-xxvi preliminaries, including contents list, synopsis, and a preface by Jeremy Wilson: 'The Two Texts of Seven Pillars' (pp. xxi-xxvi).
pp. 1-813 T. E. Lawrence's full 1922 text of Seven Pillars, previously published only in our three-volume 1997 fine-press edition. Preparation for this second edition has included a further comparison of the two source texts by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson, leading to minor amendments and corrections.
pp. 814-820: Appendixes I and II from the subscribers' abridgement of Seven Pillars, i.e. nominal rolls and information from Lawrence's pocket diaries for 1917-18.
p. 820 Editor's note.
pp. 821-870 Index by Hazel K. Bell (this index won the Wheatley Medal)

Seven Pillars of Wisdom