T. E. Lawrence

The complete original text of Lawrence’s magnum opus.

• Sold as a set of 3.
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph. The Complete 1922 Text.
• Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press, 1997.
• xxii,434 pp.; [x],435-880 pp.; [vi] pp., 127 plates (some double-page). 3 vols.
• 4to.
• One of 650 copies. 
• Illustrations in full cloth with pictorial endsheets.
• Original quarter pale grey cloth and boards.

Lawrence’s superb narrative of the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918. Invited by Sir Ronald 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 century, originally printed in 8 copies by the Oxford Times printing office, which Lawrence abridged, often drastically, for the 1926 subscribers’ edition. Robert Graves, E.M. Forster, and George Bernard Shaw all praised this text, here edited by Jeremy Wilson.

Wilson has written, “if Seven Pillars interests you as history, or travel literature, or autobiography, you should read the Oxford text. It is a third longer than the subscribers’ abridgment and contains all kinds of interesting things you will not find there.”.

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