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
4 August 2010
T. E. Lawrence
'The Mint' and Later Writings About Service Life
LIBRARY EDITION, 475 numbered copies.
Castle Hill Press, 2010
Edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson
Introduction by Jeremy Wilson
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: The Mint and Later Writings About Service Life shown, left to right, in its three bindings: quarter-goatskin, full-goatskin and cloth. In each case the equivalent binding of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text (2003) is shown beside it.
SPECIFICATION -
288 pages
Trimmed page size 234 x 156mm
Typeset by Castle Hill Press in 11 point Caslon
Printed on acid-free paper
Cloth-binding
ISBN: 978-1-873141-60-1 £68.00
250 numbered copies in a sewn hardback binding by The Fine Book Bindery: blue cloth; top edge stained; ribbon place-marker; letterpress-printed endpapers, head and tail bands; glassine dust-jacket.
Above: full cloth (right) with the equivalent binding of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text (2003)
Quarter-goatskin binding
ISBN: 978-1-873141-59-5 £180.00
180 numbered copies bound by The Fine Book Bindery in quarter black Nigerian goatskin with blue cloth sides. Top edge gilt, letterpress-printed endpapers, ribbon place marker, head and tail bands. Coloured frontispiece. Issued post-publication in a blue cloth-covered slipcase.
Above: quarter goatskin (right) with the equivalent binding of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text (2003)
Full goatskin binding
ISBN: 978-1-873141-58-8 £485.00
45 numbered copies bound by The Fine Book Bindery in full black Nigerian goatskin. All edges gilt, ribbon place marker, head and tail bands, letterpress-printed endpapers, coloured frontispiece.
Issued in a blue cloth-covered slipcase, which also contains a booklet containing a selection of Lawrence's comments about The Mint, from the appendix to the large-format edition.
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