Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph

Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press, 1997. [Travel] DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, the complete 1922 text. Three volumes and a portfolio of illustrations. Quartos (30 x 22 x 16cm), pp.[4] xxii, 434 [4]; pp.[4] x, 435-880 [4]; pp.[8] 82. Main volumes in navy full goatskin, with gilt titles and raised bands to spines. With gilt dentelle to turn-ins and gold vein marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Introductory volume in quarter navy goatskin and white cloth over boards. With 128 colour pictorial and photographic clay paper plates, including a frontispiece. With photographic endpapers. Top edge gilt. Portfolio bound in white publisher's cloth with navy paper sleeve to interior and navy paper lining. Contains two maps and loose prints of all illustrations from the book. All four items are protected inside the white cloth slip-case. Slight spotting to the slip-case and a touch of sunning to leather spines. Near fine. Number 87 of 752 copies. A close reproduction of the original, privately published Subscriber's Edition, which was so expensive to manufacture that it almost left Lawrence bankrupt upon its release in 1926.