Beschreibung:

Lawrence, Thomas Edward Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. [London: Privately Printed by Manning Pike & H. J. Hodgson], 1926 4to (9 1/4 x 7 in.; 235 x 178 mm). Proof copy bound without the 66 plates, pictorial endpapers, and folding maps found in regular copies, leaves trimmed by the binder from the regular size (10 x 7 1/2 in.; 253 x 190 mm), text leaves the same but with some illustrations and initials poorly printed, woodcut text illustrations and decorative initials, those at the beginning of each book printed in red, rare woodcut by Blair Hughes-Stanton illustrating the dedicatory poem of the Subscriber's Edition pasted to verso of front free endpaper with its blank margins trimmed but printed on heavier stock than the india proof paper used in the four recorded copies bearing it, accompanied by a printed "Sketch Map" of the Near East on thin card which appears in larger format at the end of Revolt in the Desert; a few minor marginal spots. Original black pigskin, specially bound for the author, edges black, plain white paper endpapers, in a niger morocco gilt drop-down box, title gilt-lettered on upper cover and spine, "Proof Copy / August 1926" gilt-lettered on spine, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; extremities rubbed. [With, in mylar envelopes:] Jacob Schwartz, typed note to Mr. Bray, 3 February 1963, with extract from the Texas Quarterly (see below) and the "Sketch Map"; torn at fold.