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LAWRENCE, T.E. | Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings...illustrating Seven Pillars..., 1927

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From the Library of Alan Milne

LAWRENCE, T.E.


CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS, PASTELS, DRAWINGS AND WOODCUTS ILLUSTRATING COL. T. E. LAWRENCE'S BOOK "SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM". MILES & CO. LTD. FOR ERNEST BROWN & PHILLIPS, THE LEICESTER GALLERIES, 1927.


4to, second printing of the first English edition, prefaces by George Bernard Shaw and T.E. Lawrence, half-tone frontispiece and half-tone plate after Augustus John, original printed wrappers, some minor staining and spotting


The uncommon catalogue of the second Leicester Galleries exhibition relating to the illustrations for Seven Pillars of Wisdom. The first exhibition (1921) was of Kennington's Arab Portraits only. 


LITERATURE:

O'Brien A099


PROVENANCE:

Douglass Whetton


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