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Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula
The Mint, 1928 text

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The Forest Giant

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T. E. Lawrence Letters series
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 24 April 2010

 

T. E. Lawrence
'The Mint' and Later Writings About Service Life

LIBRARY EDITION printed for subscribers,  475 numbered copies.
Castle Hill Press, 2010
Edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson
Introduction by Jeremy Wilson

For ISBNs, prices and more pictures see Specification

This volume contains the 1928 text of The Mint, followed by a selection of later writings about Lawrence's service life drawn from letters and other sources.

Above: Full goatskin binding with companion booklet and slipcase.

A companion to the 1922 Seven Pillars

Our two editions of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text have earned a respected place in the Lawrence literature. Subscribers often asked us to publish a comparable edition of Lawrence's second book, The Mint. This seemed to us worthwhile only if we could do something more than reprint the text of The Mint that was published in 1955.  

In place of the 1955 text we have used the text of the manuscript of The Mint that Lawrence completed in 1928. As with the 1922 Seven Pillars, this is the text of the work as Lawrence wrote it, before making changes in response to readers' comments.

Secondly, while the narrative of The Mint halts at the end of 1926, we have included passages from later letters and reports that extend Lawrence's account of his life in the ranks of the RAF to his final discharge in February 1935. But for his sudden death a few weeks later, he would probably have written such a book, using the Uxbridge chapters of The Mint as an introduction.

Library Edition

The first Castle Hill Press printing of The Mint and Later Writings About Service Life was a Large Paper edition.

For this Library Edition we re-set most of the text to fit in fewer pages, using the same smaller format as the Library Edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text.


The Library Edition contains:
 

  • Introduction by Jeremy Wilson (pp. ix-xviii)

  • The Mint (pp. 1-149): The text of the manuscript of The Mint presented by Lawrence to Edward Garnett in 1928. In Lawrence's last years, when many people had read and commented on The Mint, he revised it in detail. The 1928 text, like our 1922 text of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, shows the text of The Mint before this process. We have made only light copy-editing corrections.

  • 'Later Writings About Service Life' (pp. 151-264): A selection from Lawrence's later writings about his life in ranks of the RAF, taken from letters and documents he wrote between 1927 and 1935. These are similar to the sources he himself used to write the Cranwell section of The Mint, for which he had few notes. In effect, this fourth section extends The Mint to the end of Lawrence's RAF service. It also helps redress the negative impact of the Uxbridge chapters that make up almost 80% of the 1928 Mint text.

  • Acknowledgements and Sources (p. 265)

  • References for the extracts published in 'Later Writings About Service Life' and 'Letters About The Mint' (pp.266-70)

  • [Supplement to the full-goatskin copies only):

    • 'Letters About The Mint' - discussion of The Mint in letters written by Lawrence between 1927 and 1935.



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