GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: LAWRENCE, T E (4 Ergebnisse)

One of 500 copies, small 4to., original quarter blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering direct, top edge gilt, others uncut, a little sunned and rubbed at spine, some light marking to cloth.

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). Clements, pp. 35-6; O'Brien A229; not in Ransom. Large octavo. Original dark blue quarter niger by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine gilt-lettered direct, raised bands, cream buckram sides, top edge gilt, all others uncut. Modern colour bookplate of one Michael Scott. Spine and head of front cover sunned, slight recolouring to spine, spots and discolouration on both boards, contents clean. A very good copy.

First edition, number 622 of 1,000 copies, handsomely printed in Eric Gill's Perpetua type on handmade paper. This volume collects the majority of Lawrence's contributions to the Arab Bulletin, a confidential summary of developments in the Near East acting as a supplement to the intelligence bulletin circulated by the General Staff of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. The Arab Bulletin, founded at Lawrence's instigation shortly after his return to Cairo from Mesopotamia, ran from 1916 to 1919. It "included regional political and personality profiles in addition to military assessments of troop strength, dispositions, and movements, often accompanied by firsthand accounts of fighting in Arabia by British observers. Reaction to developments in Arabia from throughout the Muslim world were also carefully monitored in the Bulletin" (Westrate, p. 103). O'Brien A226; Pertelote 145. Bruce C. Westrate, Arab Bureau: British Policy in the Middle East, 1916-1920, 2010. Large octavo. Collotype frontispiece portrait of author. Original black quarter niger by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, cream cloth boards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Browning to sides, a few small stains to front board, light foxing internally: a very good copy.

ONE OF 1,000 SETS, printed on mould-made paper, 166 reproductions of drawings, photographs and diagrams, 2 maps printed in black and red within original faintly spotted envelope (laid in at rear of first volume), pp. [ii], 56; [iv], 60, crown 4to, original half brick-red morocco with cream cloth sides, the backstrips lettered in gilt between five raised bands, faint adhesive show-through to cloth at edges of morocco, t.e.g., others untrimmed and faintly toned, very good. A particularly good set. Lawrence's thesis for his Final Examination in History at Oxford, the result of numerous European trips, many made on a bicycle with a particularly high gear, custom-built by Morris of Oxford, and a journey to the East in the hot summer of 1909. Lawrence's contention, in opposition to contemporary thinking, was that many military architectural improvements of the era were developed in Europe and introduced by the Crusaders to the Near East. Published a year after Lawrence's death, with assistance from his brother, A.W. Lawrence, who contributes the Foreword to the first volume. (Chanticleer 112; O'Brien, 132).