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179. laWrenCe, thomas edward (compiler). Minorities. edited by J.M. Wilson with a Preface by c. Day lewis. London: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Ltd for Bertram Rota & Jonathan Cape, 1971.
£475
8vo. original crushed morocco backed grey buckram boards, board-edges bevelled, spine with onlaid gilt leather lettering-piece, top edge gilt, grey silk marker; pp. 272; photographic portrait frontispiece, 24 facsimiles of lawrence’s autograph transcriptions in the text, 5 full page; very slightly darkened at spine-ends as usual [?due to binding process], very light mark on limitation l., otherwise a fine copy.
First edition, no 80 of 125 specially-bound copies signed by day lewis, with facsimiles of lawrence’s manuscript transcriptions not present in the trade issue. lawrence described Minorities, which was compiled between 1919 and 1927, as ‘my private anthology, which necessity and much travelling compelled me to select and copy into a small note-book for myself’ (p. 17). this volume reprints the poems lawrence collected, with a biographical introduction by lawrence’s biographer J.M. Wilson and a preface by c. Day lewis. of the 125 copies, only 110 were for sale, and this limited edition is rare on the market.
O’Brien A258.
180. laWrenCe, thomas edward. letters to e.t. leeds, with a commentary by e.t. leeds. edited and with an introduction by J.M. Wilson with a Memoir of e.t. leeds by D.B. harden & illustrated with line Drawings by richard Kennedy. Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1988.
£450
4to (282 x 200mm). original cloth-backed boards by the Fine Bindery, spine lettered in gilt, upper board with design after Kennedy, original slipcase; pp. xxii, [2 (editorial note, verso blank)], 140, [4 (colophon and 3 blank pp.)]; mounted photographic frontispiece, 10 illustrations after richard Kennedy printed in ochre, 9 full-page, illustrations in the text, 6 plates bearing illustrations recto-and-verso, some after lawrence, title printed in brown and black; minimal light rubbing at extremities, otherwise a fine copy, without the loosely-inserted errata slip by J.M. Wilson, 1990, found in some copies but not noted by either Butcher or o’Brien.
First edition, limited to 750 copies, this no. 327 of 650 bound in quarter buckram. a ‘major collection of letters by lawrence [... which] are especially revealing of the carchemish period’ (o’Brien), comprising fifty-three letters from lawrence to leeds (the assistant to the Keeper of the ashmolean Museum in oxford), dating from 1909 to 1935, and relating principally to archaeological matters (some thirty-six were written from carchemish): ‘this new information is interesting enough in itself — but it is also extremely important in other ways. First, because it sheds new light on the early relationship between lawrence and D.g. hogarth, and, second, because it makes nonsense of the reasons suggested by some biographers for lawrence’s appointment to the British Museum’s carchemish excavations. the evidence is therefore immensely important’ (J.M. Wilson, quoted in the prospectus for the work).
D. Butcher, The Whittington Press (Leominster: 1996), 94; O’Brien A263. 181
181. laWrenCe, t.e. Four letters of t.e. shaw to Viscount carlow. Privately Printed at the Strawberry Press. 1998.
£148
8vo., original printed wrappers. Vignette on title-page and colophon printed in red. a fine copy.
limited edition of 60 numbered copies. “this keepsake was printed for a lecture to the Private libraries association on 28 april 1998, and for private distribution thereafter”.
these four letters are all that survive of the correspondence between lawrence and Viscount carlow. they were first printed by carlow in 1936, as one of the first books from his corvinus Press, and two of the letters were reprinted in the 1938 Letters of T.E. Lawrence. this is therefore only the second complete edition.
182. laWrenCe, t.e. correspondence with Bernard and charlotte shaw. Fordingbridge. The Castle Hill Press. 2000-2009.
£1,895
Folio, 4 volumes bound in full green goatskin. the blind- stamped decoration on the front cover, with clover-leaves and interlinked ‘s’s is adapted from the 1927 design by c & c Mcleish for the shaws’ copy of the subscribers’ seven Pillars. all edges gilt, hand-marbled end- papers by ann Muir, head and tail bands. in lined cloth-covered slip-case. a mint set.
First edition, limited to 475 copies. this one of 50 sets in full goatskin. each volume in the special
issues contains an
additional sixteen pages of facsimiles or illustrations not in the standard edition.
“it was not until his wife’s death in 1943 that Bernard shaw began to understand the extraordinary nature of her correspondence with t.e. lawrence. she had preserved almost all the letters she had received – over 300, some very long – and had recovered several of those that she herself had written to lawrence. in her engagement diary, she had used symbols to note the dates that she wrote to lawrence or received letters from him. When Bernard shaw read her letters he said: ‘it takes a long time for two people to get to know each other, and from a diary i discovered lately, and some letters which she wrote to t. e. lawrence, i realise that there were many parts of her character that even i did not know, for she poured out her soul to lawrence.’
on lawrence’s side too, this was a remarkable friendship. taken as a whole, the correspondence adds up to almost twice the total length of his letters to any other recipient. on their own, setting aside the other volumes in our t.e. lawrence letters series, the four volumes of correspondence with the shaws are the largest edition of lawrence’s letters since David garnett’s 900-page letters of t. e. lawrence.
When David garnett prepared his collected edition, Bernard shaw gave
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