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
1 March 2010
T. E. Lawrence
'The Mint' and Later Writings About Service Life
1928 text of The Mint, followed by a selection of later writings
about Lawrence's service life drawn from letters and other sources
Edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson
Introduction by Jeremy Wilson
Large-format fine-press edition printed for subscribers
For ISBNs, prices and more pictures see Specification
Above: copies of the quarter-cloth issue, with a copy of our 1997 Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text centre-right, bottom shelf
PROSPECTUS - large-format edition
Our 1997 edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text has won a respected place in the Lawrence literature. We believe that this companion large-format edition of 'The Mint' and Later Writings About Service Life will do the same.The edition contains:
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Introduction by Jeremy Wilson (pp. ix-xiii)
- The Mint (pp. 1-174): The text of the manuscript of The Mint presented by
Lawrence to Edward Garnett in 1928.
In Lawrence's last years, when many people had read and commented on The Mint,
he revised it in detail. The 1928 text, like our 1922 text of Seven Pillars of
Wisdom, shows the text of The Mint before this process.
We have made only light copy-editing corrections.
This text has been printed just once before, in an edition of 50 copies published at a prohibitive price in 1936 to protect American copyright. Our text is taken from the manuscript, not from that earlier printed edition. There are likely to be variant transcriptions between the two editions. - 'Later Writings About Service Life' (pp. 175-296): A selection from Lawrence's later writings about service life, taken from letters and documents he wrote between 1927 and 1935. These are similar to the sources he himself used to write the Cranwell section of The Mint, for which he had few notes. In effect, this fourth section extends The Mint to the end of Lawrence's RAF service. It also helps redress the negative impact of the Uxbridge chapters that make up almost 80% of the 1928 Mint text.
- Appendix: 'Letters About The Mint' (pp. 297-333): Discussion of The Mint in letters written by Lawrence between 1927 and 1935.
- Acknowledgements and Sources (p. 334)
- References for the extracts published in 'Later Writings About Service Life' and 'Letters About The Mint' (pp. 335-40)
- [Supplement in the full-goatskin copies only, pp. I-VIII): 'Some Uxbridge Notes' and four contemporary notes about Cranwell.
Large-format edition specification
From The Mint to Confession of Faith
Library Edition
We are also publishing an edition of 'The Mint' and Later Writings about Service Life (with a slightly abridged text) in a smaller format as a companion to our 2003 Library Edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text.Library Edition prospectus
Library Edition specification
NEWS
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For more general comments about our projects, publishing, and T.E. Lawrence see Jeremy Wilson's blog.
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