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LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935).] Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph . [London: privately printed by Manning Pike and C.J. Hodgson], 1926. 4° 253 x 190mm). 65 plates printed by Whittingham & Griggs, including frontispiece portrait of Feisal by Augustus John many coloured or tinted, 4 double-page, by Eric Kennington William Roberts Augustus John William Nicholson Paul Nash et al., 4 folding colour-printed maps. 58 illustrations in text, one coloured, by Roberts, Nash, Kennington, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Gertrude Hermes and others. Initials by Edward Wadsworth printed in red and black. Text printed in red and black. (Occasional light marginal spotting, a few leaves lightly browned, 2 maps with short, reinforced tears.) Original black morocco gilt, spine titled in gilt 'THE SEVEN PILLARS', spine divided into compartments by 5 raised bands, each band enclosed by 2 gilt fillets extending onto the boards and converging in a point surrounded by 3 leaf tools, original endpapers by Kennington, top edge gilt, others uncut (lightly rubbed, a few scuffs, short cracks on joints, upper hinge split), later slipcase. 'SUBSCRIBER'S' EDITION, ONE OF 170 'COMPLETE' COPIES, INSCRIBED BY LAWRENCE ON P. XIX 'COMPLETE COPY. 1.XII.26 TES.', WITH ONE MANUSCRIPT CORRECTION TO THE ILLUSTRATION LIST. O'Brien A040. [Roy] Manning PIKE (1879-1967). Notes on Printing Seven Pillars of Wisdom . Carbon copy of a typescript, on rectos only, signed at the head of the first page 'MANNING PIKE', pencilled amendment on page 1, later printed title, [s.l., s.d.], 6 pages, 4°, later morocco-backed boards, gilt spine. [T.E. LAWRENCE] 'T.E. SHAW'. Note from T.E. Shaw to his Subscribers . [S.l.: for the author, 1926]. Broadsheet (203 x 130mm), printed on the recto only. O'Brien A038 ('Approximately 150 copies printed'). [T.E. LAWRENCE] 'T.E. SHAW'. Some Notes on the Writing of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom . [S.l.: for the author, circa 1927]. 4° bifolium (249 x 187mm). (A few unobtrusive light spots and marks.) O'Brien A039 ('About 200 copies printed for distribution to subscribers'). COMPLETE 'SUBSCRIBER'S' COPY OF SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM , WITH THE PRINTER'S TYPED ACCOUNT AND TWO IMPORTANT EPHEMERAL ITEMS. Lawrence first began writing his epic account of the Arab Revolt in Paris in early 1919, whilst attending the Paris Peace Conference; this manuscript was lost at Reading station, and two further versions followed. The third was printed in eight copies (which formed the 'Oxford' edition, cf. lots 219-221), and copies of this edition were submitted to members of the Hejaz Expeditionary force and literary friends to read and criticise (the latter group included G.B. Shaw, E.M. Forster, Thomas Hardy and Siegfried Sassoon). Following rewriting between 1923 and 1926, the final text evolved; as Lawrence states in Some Notes on the Writing of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom , as a result of the criticisms of his readers and critics, he reduced the length of the book from around 330,000 words to 'some 280,000', with the result that the final text was 'swifter and more pungent'. In this copy page XV is mispaginated as VIII, and it includes the 'Prickly Pear' plate (which is not called for by the list of illustrations), but not the two Paul Nash illustrations called for on pages 92 and 208, nor the Blair Hughes-Stanton wood engraving that illustrates the dedicatory poem in five copies. This copy is offered with two important pieces of ephemera: Note from T.E. Shaw to his Subscribers (which announces that copies are ready, asking for payment, and giving Manning Pike's name as a contact for queries) and Some Notes on the Writing , which lists the various manuscripts and editions of the work -- 'No further issue of the Seven Pillars will be made in my lifetime' -- and describes the composition and publication of Revolt in the Desert . The lot also includes a contemporary carbon copy of Manning Pike's typewritten account of the work's printing, signed by Pike. (4)