Lawrence, T.E.

2 volumes, 8vo, first edition, number 459 of 1000 copies, titles printed in red, 166 reproductions of drawings, plans and sketches, with 2 large folding maps printed on japon in separate folder, original half morocco, top edges gilt, collector's slipcase, some slight discolouration to cream cloth over boards

Chanticleer 112; Cave and Manson pp.119-120.

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T.E. Lawrence had died in 1935 and there was a great deal of interest in his work and ideas, particularly in the unpublished manuscript The Mint. In order to establish Christopher Sandford's credentials as a potential future publisher for this work, the partners in the Press persuaded Lawrence's brother and executor, A.W. Lawrence, to allow them to publish Lawrence's Oxford thesis about the castles of the crusaders.