THOMAS EDWARD LAWRENCE (1888-1935)
THOMAS EDWARD LAWRENCE (1888-1935) An Essay on Flecker . [London]: The Corvinus Press, 1937. 4° (290 x 200mm). Printed on rectos only. (A few very light spots.) Original vellum [by W.H. Smith], lettered in gilt on the upper cover, yapp fore-edges with silk fore-edge ties, top edge gilt, others uncut. Provenance : Dr Lionel Dakers CBE (1924-2003). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 32 COPIES, THIS NUMBER FOUR OF 4 VELLUM-BOUND COPIES: 'Significant as the first edition of one of Lawrence's important minor works' (Nash and Flavell). The poet James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) was the author of The Golden Journey to Samarkand and Hassan , and British Vice-Consul in Beirut, where he befriended Lawrence in the pre-war years, sharing interests in the East, antiquity, languages, and literature with him. The Essay describes Flecker during that period thus: 'he was wrapped up in poetics, making a wide, exact, skilful study of how other men had written. He left untouched none of the sources of European verse. His education had given him scholarship to master Ancient Greece and Rome. His profession had taught him some classical Arabic, some Turkish. His practice made him acquainted with modern Greek. French was a daily language to him: and his inherited Jewish aptitude for languages made it not arduous to keep abreast of Spanish, Italian, Portuguese. Only Russian, I think, remained deliberately strange. It was too northy for this Mediterranean semite' (ff.8-9). Written in 1925 and intended for publication in a literary journal, the Essay first appeared in this edition by Viscount Carlow, who noted on the slipcase of one of his own copies that, 'This book was printed to cover the copyright of certain documents that were stolen. No copies are in general circulation' (Nash and Flavell). 'Most copies were given away to Carlow's friends' ( loc. cit. ), and 6 of the 32 copies are in institutional collections; the vellum-bound copies are particularly rare at auction, and ONLY ONE OTHER COPY IS RECORDED BY ABPC SINCE 1975. Clements p.30; Nash and Flavell 15; O'Brien A198.
THOMAS EDWARD LAWRENCE (1888-1935)
THOMAS EDWARD LAWRENCE (1888-1935) An Essay on Flecker . [London]: The Corvinus Press, 1937. 4° (290 x 200mm). Printed on rectos only. (A few very light spots.) Original vellum [by W.H. Smith], lettered in gilt on the upper cover, yapp fore-edges with silk fore-edge ties, top edge gilt, others uncut. Provenance : Dr Lionel Dakers CBE (1924-2003). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 32 COPIES, THIS NUMBER FOUR OF 4 VELLUM-BOUND COPIES: 'Significant as the first edition of one of Lawrence's important minor works' (Nash and Flavell). The poet James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) was the author of The Golden Journey to Samarkand and Hassan , and British Vice-Consul in Beirut, where he befriended Lawrence in the pre-war years, sharing interests in the East, antiquity, languages, and literature with him. The Essay describes Flecker during that period thus: 'he was wrapped up in poetics, making a wide, exact, skilful study of how other men had written. He left untouched none of the sources of European verse. His education had given him scholarship to master Ancient Greece and Rome. His profession had taught him some classical Arabic, some Turkish. His practice made him acquainted with modern Greek. French was a daily language to him: and his inherited Jewish aptitude for languages made it not arduous to keep abreast of Spanish, Italian, Portuguese. Only Russian, I think, remained deliberately strange. It was too northy for this Mediterranean semite' (ff.8-9). Written in 1925 and intended for publication in a literary journal, the Essay first appeared in this edition by Viscount Carlow, who noted on the slipcase of one of his own copies that, 'This book was printed to cover the copyright of certain documents that were stolen. No copies are in general circulation' (Nash and Flavell). 'Most copies were given away to Carlow's friends' ( loc. cit. ), and 6 of the 32 copies are in institutional collections; the vellum-bound copies are particularly rare at auction, and ONLY ONE OTHER COPY IS RECORDED BY ABPC SINCE 1975. Clements p.30; Nash and Flavell 15; O'Brien A198.
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