GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: LAWRENCE, T. E.

£2,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Crusader Castles. First edition of "the first of the Golden Cockerel volumes of Lawrence's 'literary remains' to be published after his death" (O'Brien). Volume I is number 700 of 1000 numbered copies; Volume II is one of 35 unnumbered copies from a total of 1,035.Volume I reproduces the thesis Lawrence wrote as an undergraduate at Oxford University in 1910, having gathered much of the material on a solitary walking trek in the Near East in the summer of 1909. Volume II contains his letters on military architecture (accompanied by his drawings and photographs) written to his mother during his travels and research in England, Wales, France, Syria, and Palestine.

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