GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: LAWRENCE, T. E.

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Men in Print. First edition, limited issue, number 465 of 500 copies. This is a collection of five essays of literary criticism published in the midst of the Second World War, introduced by the author's youngest brother. As noted in the introduction, A. W. Lawrence set out to "collect such few essays in literary criticism [of Lawrence's] as could be accepted unreservedly as the expressions of fully considered views" (p. 9). The essays date from 1926-28 and are, in order: "A Note on James Elroy Flecker," with whom Lawrence corresponded until his death; "A Review of the Novels by D. H. Lawrence"; "A Review of the Short Stories of H. G. Wells," both originally released in The Spectator under the pseudonym C. D. (Colin Dale); "A Criticism of Henry Williamson's Tarka the Otter, with some remarks on the style of Doughty's Arabia Deserta," containing his comments and changes to Williamson's work; and "A Review of The Works of Walter Savage Landor," an essay of effusive praise for an edition that "can probably never be bettered" (p. 57).

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