CATALOGUE
Works
Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula
The Mint, 1928 text
Translation
The Forest Giant
Letters
T. E. Lawrence Letters series
Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw
Correspondence with Henry Williamson
Correspondence with E. M. Forster and others
4 December 2008
Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula
Compiled by T. E. Lawrence at the War Office, London, November-December 1914.
First edition for public circulation, Castle Hill Press, 2008
Fine-press edition printed for subscribers
SPECIFICATION
Edition of 227 numbered copies, of which 190 are for sale.
Trimmed page-size 282 x 200 mm.
176 pages. 2 folding maps.
Designed and typeset in Caslon by Castle Hill Press. Printed on high-quality paper.
Bound by The Fine Book Bindery.
Quarter-goatskin binding
150 copies (numbered 41-190) bound in quarter beige goatskin with cream canvas sides; head and tail bands, place-mark ribbon.
Maps:
1) Facsimile of the 1915 War Office 1:1,000,000 key map to the series of 125:000 maps of Sinai to which this report refers. This key map shows the routes described in the report.
2) Facsimile of the Wadi Jerafi sheet from the 1915 War Office 1:125,000 series to which this guide refers. This Wadi Jerafi sheet covers the south-east corner of the area surveyed in 1914. In the south it includes the Nagb el Akaba and Akaba itself (though the area close to Akaba could not be surveyed). In the north it extends to Kuntilla.
Issued in a card slip-case.
Full goatskin binding
This issue contains an additional map.
40 copies (numbered 1-40) bound in full beige goatskin. All edges gilt, head and tail bands, place-mark ribbon, hand-marbled endpapers by Ann Muir Marbling. Issued in a slip-case.
Maps:
1) Facsimile of the 1915 War Office 1:1,000,000 key map to the series of 125:000 maps of Sinai to which this report refers. This key map shows the routes described in the report.
2) Facsimile of the Wadi Jerafi sheet from the 1915 War Office 1:125,000 series to which this guide refers. This Wadi Jerafi sheet covers the south-east corner of the area surveyed in 1914. In the south it includes the Nagb el Akaba and Akaba itself (though the area close to Akaba could not be surveyed). In the north it extends to Kuntilla.
3) Facsimile of the El Mayein sheet from the 1915 War Office 1:125,000 series to which this guide refers. This sheet covers the Turkish frontier area immediately north of the Wadi Jerafi sheet above.
Thirty-seven copies are reserved
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