Lawrence, T.E.

J.M. Wilson’s copy of the first published edition of Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

• T.E. Lawrence (English).
• London: Jonathan Cape, [1935].
• Quarto.
• 672 pp.
• Number 185 of 750 deluxe copies of the Cape edition, which includes facsimiles and color plates not present in the trade issue.
• Bound in quarter pigskin over brown buckram with crossed swords in gilt to front panel, titled in gilt to backstrip, Cockerel marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed.

From the library of J.M. Wilson, one of the great champions of Lawrence in the late twentieth century. Lawrence’s superb narrative of the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918. Invited by Sir Reginald Storrs to the British organized conference at Jiddah, Lawrence impressed the Arab leaders, and thereafter played his spectacular role as the revolt succeeded, entering into the mythology of the twentieth century. His account is itself one of the legendary books of the 1920s, rewritten after the first manuscript was lost, obsessively revised, privately printed in 1926, and only published in 1935 after Lawrence’s death.

J.M. Wilson

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