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T. E. LAWRENCE and Richard KENNEDY (artist)
Letters to E.T. Leeds, with a Commentary by E.T. Leeds. Edited ... by J.M. Wilson with a Memoir of E.T. Leeds by D.B. Harden.
Limited edition, one of only 650 copies: a fine example.
Published: Whittington Press, Andoversford, 1988
Thomas Edward LAWRENCE and Richard KENNEDY (artist) Letters to E.T. Leeds, with a Commentary by E.T. Leeds. Edited and with an Introduction by J.M. Wilson with a Memoir of E.T. Leeds by D.B. Harden. [Andoversford:] The Whittington Press, 1988. Tall 4to (11 1/8 x 7 7/8 inches; 282 x 200mm), pp. xxii, [2 (editorial note, verso blank)], 140, [4 (colophon and 3 blank pp.)]. Title printed in brown and black. Mounted photographic frontispiece, 10 illustrations after Richard Kennedy printed in ochre, 9 full-page, other illustrations in the text, 6 plates bearing illustrations recto-and-verso, some after Lawrence. Original cloth-backed boards by The Fine Bindery, spine lettered in gilt, upper board with design after Kennedy, original slipcase. (Small mark to each cover, slipcase minimally soiled [see images].) A fine copy of the first edition, limited to 750 copies, this no. 301 of 650 bound in quarter buckram. A 'major collection of letters by Lawrence … especially revealing of the Carchemish period' (O'Brien), comprising 53 letters from Lawrence to Leeds (the Assistant to the Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford), dating from 1909 to 1935, and relating principally to archaeological matters (some thirty-six were written from Carchemish): '[t]his new information is interesting enough in itself - but it is also extremely important in other ways. First, because it sheds new light on the early relationship between Lawrence and D.G. Hogarth, and, second, because it makes nonsense of the reasons suggested by some biographers for Lawrence's appointment to the British Museum's Carchemish excavations. The evidence is therefore immensely important' (J.M. Wilson, quoted in the prospectus for the work). This copy does not include the loosely-inserted errata slip by J.M. Wilson dated 1990, which is found in some copies but not noted by either Butcher or O'Brien. D. Butcher, The Whittington Press, 94; O'Brien A263 “The Whittington Press has, since 1971, been printing books by Letterpress, from type … in the Gloucestershire village of Whittington. It was started by John & Rosalind Randle partly as the result of anearly enthusiasm for caslon type, Albion presses & hand-made paper, and partly the wish to escape from London publishing jobs at the weekend….The only complete collection of the Press’s books in every edition which it will probably ever be possible to assemble is at the Elmer Andersen Library at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, which also houses all our working material and proofs. Other major continuing collections are at the New York Public Library, The University of California at Los Angeles, the Lilly Library at Indiana University and the University of Iowa. There is also a large collection of our books at the University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham, and at Merton College, Oxford” (whittingtonpress.co.uk). Binding Condition: Excellent Overall Condition: Excellent Size: 11 1/8 x 7 7/8ins; 282 x 200mm