SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM. A Triumph. The Complete 1922 Text.
[Edited and with a Preface by Jeremy Wilson]. In two volumes, plus a volume of illustrations. Volume One: Pp. xxii+434(last blank), 2 folding coloured maps in pocket at lower free endpaper; Volume Two: Pp.[x]+[435]-880, notes, word counts, list of changes in the 1926 text; Illustrations volume: Pp. [152], illustrated throughout in colour and black & white; all impl. 8vo; the text volumes uniformly bound in qr. canvas, spines lettered in gilt with gilt lettered green leather skiver labels, grey papered boards, illustrations volume bound in full limp canvas, a trifle sprung; all top edges green; dust wrappers; together within a maroon cloth slipcase; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedowns of text volumes and on verso of upper free endpaper in the illustrations volume; Castle Hill Press, Fordingbridge, 1997. One of 650 sets thus bound (total edition 752 numbered sets). O'Brien A034a. *The text of the original Seven Pillars of Wisdom is much longer than the 1926 abridgement or 'Subscribers edition'. Only 8 copies of the full text were printed by the Oxford Times in 1922, and as long as the 1926 version was protected by copyright, the original text could not be re-issued. The illustrations and maps are reproduced from the 1926 edition. Item #172136
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