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T. E.
Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom
The
Complete 1922 'Oxford' Text
Subscribers' Library Edition,
Castle Hill Press, 2003, 1,225 numbered
copies
The Subscribers' Library Edition is the only edition of the Oxford
Seven Pillars currently in print. No further copies of the
lower-specification trade edition are available from the publishers,
though some booksellers may still hold stock.
The Library Edition is a Castle Hill Press subscription edition,
available by direct order only. We cannot offer discount to
booksellers.
Specification
896 pages, 16 pages of b&w photographs.
Trimmed page size 234 x 156mm.
Typeset by Castle Hill Press in 11 point Caslon. Printed
on cream acid-free paper by the Cromwell Press.
1,000 numbered copies were produced in a sewn hardback binding
by the Cromwell Press: brown cloth
(Tele Legatoria Canvas Extra
RFA); top edge gilt; ribbon place-marker; head and tail bands;
glassine dust-jacket. The coloured endpapers were
reproduced from maps prepared by Lawrence for Seven Pillars
in 1926.
 
Book Contents:
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pp. i-xxvi
preliminaries, including contents list, synopsis, and a
preface by Jeremy Wilson: 'The Two Texts of Seven Pillars'
(pp. xxi-xxvi).
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pp. 1-813 T. E. Lawrence's full 1922 text of Seven Pillars, hitherto published only in
our three-volume 1997 fine-press edition. Preparation for this
second edition has included a further comparison of the two source
texts by Jeremy and
Nicole Wilson, leading to minor
amendments and corrections.
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pp. 814-820:
Appendixes I and II from the subscribers' abridgement of Seven
Pillars, i.e. nominal rolls and information from
Lawrence's pocket diaries for 1917-18.
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p. 820
Editor's note.
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pp. 821-870 Index by Hazel
K. Bell (this index won the Wheatley
Medal)
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bound edition is only available
direct from Castle Hill Press.
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issue (45 numbered copies, out of print)
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Quarter-goatskin issue (180
numbered copies)
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from left to right, illustrations, a typical text opening, and the
front and rear map endpapers. Click on the thumbnails to see the
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T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete
1922 Text.
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A trade
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now out of print, was published by J. and N. Wilson in 2004
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