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T. E. Lawrence Letters, Volume III

Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1928

Edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson
With a Foreword by Jeremy Wilson


Specification

The Lawrence-Shaw letters edition will be limited to 702 sets, numbered in Vol. IV.

Vol III, 1928: 264 pages. Tall octavo, trimmed page-size 282 x 176 mm. Typeset in Garamond by Castle Hill Press. Printed on a special making of high-quality 100 g.s.m. acid-free book wove.

The Subscribers' Leaf

All copies ordered directly from Castle Hill Press before publication will be bound with an additional leaf. This will be a facsimile of 1928 Christmas Menu at Miranshah, signed by those present. It is likely that Lawrence had a hand in making this Menu.

Cloth issue
ISBN: 978 1 873141 43 4

600 copies bound in green cloth; top edge gilt, coloured end-papers, head and tail bands, dust jacket. 

Quarter-goatskin binding with additional illustrations

45 copies (sets to be numbered 56-100) bound in quarter brown goatskin with cloth sides; top edge gilt, hand-marbled end-papers by Ann Muir, with sixteen pages of photographs not in the standard edition. Issued in a card slip-case (a rigid slip-case for the set will be available with the final volume). This is a series binding: every volume in the T. E. Lawrence Letters series will be offered in this style.

Full-goatskin binding with additional illustrations

40 copies (sets to be numbered 16-55) bound in full green goatskin. The blind-stamped decoration on the front cover, with clover-leaves and interlinked 'S's, is adapted from the 1927 design by C & C McLeish for the Shaws' copy of the subscribers' Seven Pillars. All edges gilt, hand-marbled end-papers by Ann Muir, head and tail bands. With sixteen pages of photographs not in the standard edition. Issued in a card slip-case (a rigid slip-case for the set will be available with the final volume).

Designer binding

15 copies, numbered 1-15, bound in a specially commissioned inlaid goatskin binding designed by Glenn Bartley, a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders.

To be issued with the corresponding binding for Vol. II
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Two additional copies, lettered 'A' and 'B', are reserved for the publisher.

Price list
Prospectus for the Lawrence-Shaw correspondence 
Foreword by Jeremy Wilson to Volume I, 1922-1926
Foreword by Jeremy Wilson to Volume II, 1927
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