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LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). LAWRENCE'S LIBRARY-- The Seven Golden Odes of Pagan Arabia ... Translated from the Original Arabic by Lady Anne Blunt Done into English Verse by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt . London: The Chiswick Press for the translators, 1903. 4° (247 x 185mm). (Margins lightly browned, [?]inscription excised from half-title and missing portion supplied). Contemporary crushed blue morocco gilt by C. & C. McLeish (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance : T.E. Lawrence (pencilled initials on front free endpaper; pencilled name 'TE Lawrence [?in A.W. Lawrence's hand] on flyleaf; sold on behalf of the Trustees of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust, Sotheby's London, 28 June 1993, lot 713). Thomas CAMPION (1567-1620). Fifty Songs , edited by John Gray. London: The Ballantyne Press for Hacon and Ricketts, 1896. 8° (234 x 140m). Woodcut border and initials by Ricketts. (Some light offsetting.) Original paper-backed boards (lightly marked and rubbed). Provenance : T.E. Lawrence (pencilled initials on front free endpaper; A.W. Lawrence (ed.) T.E. Lawrence by his Friends , London: 1937, p. 481, misdated '1906'). ONE OF 210 COPIES. Theodore Francis POWYS (1875-1953). Mockery Gap . London: T. and A. Constable Ltd for Chatto & Windus, 1925. 8° (191 x 126mm). (Lightly spotted.) Original blue cloth, printed paper lettering-piece on spine, duplicate label tipped in at end, top edge blue (extremities lightly rubbed, lettering-piece faded). Provenance : T.E. Lawrence (Clouds Hill booklabel on upper pastedown; A.W. Lawrence (ed.) T.E. Lawrence by his Friends , London: 1937, p. 501). FIRST EDITION. Len LYE (1901-1980) No Trouble . Deya, Mallorca: The Seizin Press, 1930. 4° (284 x 213mm). Page number 6 corrected to 9 in pencil. Original buckram-backed silvered boards, boards with a design after Lye, spine gilt (extremities lightly rubbed and chipped, spine darkened). Provenance : T.E. Lawrence (Clouds Hill booklabel on upper pastedown; T.E. Lawrence by his Friends , p. 497). FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 200 SIGNED COPIES; this unnumbered, but with initials 'T.E.S.' inscribed beneath the limitation statement. Laura RIDING (1901-1991). Four Unposted Letters to Catherine . Paris: The Hours Press, [1930]. 4° (192 x 142mm). Original roan-backed boards, spine gilt, boards printed with a design after Len Lye (extremities rubbed, spine chipped and cracked, causing small losses). Provenance : T.E. Lawrence (Clouds Hill booklabel on upper pastedown; T.E. Lawrence by his Friends , p. 502). FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 200 SIGNED COPIES, this unnumbered. FIVE BOOKS FROM LAWRENCE'S LIBRARY. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922), was a correspondent and friend of Lawrence's, whom he described as one of the 'real Arabian veterans', and would visit upon his return from trips to the East (introduction to Bertram Thomas, Arabia Felix , London: 1932, p. xv); additionally, as a friend of Morris whose books were published by the Kelmscott Press, Blunt's work would have been of great interest to Lawrence, particularly in finely-printed editions such as this (which was bound by McLeish, who would later bind the five complete copies of the 'Oxford' edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom for Lawrence). In a letter to H.H. Banbury of 14 April 1928, Lawrence describes this edition thus: 'There is a good translation [of The Seven Golden Poems ], into English poetry, by Wilfrid Blunt, a great old man who died lately. His wife, Lady Anne, was an Arabic scholar. She made a prose translation: and Wilfrid, who could speak some Arabic, and liked Arabs, put them into very fine verse. I do not know how far it is at present obtainable in England. The Chiswick Press published them then, as a separate book' ( Letters , London: 1938, p. 584). Apart from the Campion, the other three works are by contemporaries of Lawrence's; of particular interest are the last two -- the third printed by Robert Graves' Seizin Press and the fourth written by Graves' lover Riding -- which link Lawrence with