Castle Hill Press

Castle Hill Press, 2000-2009

Fine-press edition printed for subscribers
T. E. Lawrence Letters, Volumes I-IV
Edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson

SPECIFICATION

The Lawrence-Shaw letters edition is limited to 475 four-volume sets, numbered in Volume IV. Note: The limitation was originally to have been 702 sets, but there are only 475 copies of Vol. IV.*

1. Vol. I: 1922-1926
2. Vol. II: 1927
3. Vol. III: 1928
4. Vol. IV: 1929-1935

Tall octavo, trimmed page-size 282 x 176 mm. Typeset in Garamond by Castle Hill Press. Printed on high-quality 100 g.s.m. acid-free paper.

• Vol. I: xx + 228 [=248] pages, frontis. port., index by Hazel K. Bell
• Vol. II: xviii +238 [=256] pages, frontis photo. + another p.93, index by Hazel K. Bell
• Vol. III: xiv+250 [=264] pages, frontis. photo. + another p.211 and 2 photographs on a fold-out leaf between pp. 146 and 147, index by Hazel K. Bell
• Vol. IV: xxii+282 [=304] pages pages. frontis. photo + 2 more, p. xxii, index by Hazel K. Bell

Subscribers' cloth binding

There are 225 subscribers' sets bound in green cloth; top edge gilt, green end-papers, head and tail bands, dust jackets. Vols II and III in these sets include an additional subscribers' leaf.

Standard binding

When the subscription for the edition ended in 2009 a new standard binding was introduced for the remaining 150 sets: quarter black goatskin with cream canvas sides; top edge gilt, cream endpapers, head and tail bands, in a cloth-covered slip-case.

*About 200 spare sets of sheets of Vols II and III - the 1927 and 1928 letters - are to be bound as one volume titled Letters from India.

Vol. I: 1922-1926