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LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935) Seven Pillars of Wisdom,...

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LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a triumph . [London: Privately Printed], 1926.
LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a triumph . [London: Privately Printed], 1926. 4 o (250 x 188 mm). Printed in red and black. 66 plates, including frontispiece portrait of Feisal by Augustus John many colored or tinted, 4 double-page, by Eric Kennington William Roberts Augustus John William Nicholson Paul Nash and others, 4 folding colored maps (with original linen backing), 58 illustrations in text, one colored, by Roberts, Nash, Kennington, Blair-Hughes-Stanton, Gertrude Hermes and others, initials by Edward Wadsworth Tan morocco gilt, gilt-lettered and ruled, edges gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Provenance : Nancy Campbell (original subscriber's bookplate on flyleaf, correspondence from T.E. Lawrence, Manning Pike, and Col. Pierce C. Joyce); Barbara Hutton (1912-1979) heiress to Frank Winfield Woolworth (ownership inscription on flyleaf: "Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow 1941"). PRIVATELY PRINTED EDITION, limited to about 170 "complete" subscriber's copies, INSCRIBED BY LAWRENCE on p. XIX "Complete copy. 1.XII.26 TES.", with a single additional manuscript correction to the illustration list. Additionally signed by the printer H.G. Hodgson at the end of the text. The present copy includes the "Prickly Pear" plate, but not the two Paul Nash illustrations called for on pages 92 and 208, or the Blair-Hughes-Stanton wood engraving that in some copies illustrated the dedicatory poem. Some Notes on the Writing of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Shaw loosely inserted. Clements p. 49 (stating that "only about 100 copies were produced at 30 guineas each"); O'Brien A040. [ With: ] An archive of 7 letters, preserved by Mrs. Colin Campbell an original subscriber, including correspondence with T.E. Lawrence, senior British staff officer Pierce C. Joyce, and publisher Manning Pike. Lawrence discusses the publication of his work: "It is not indiscreet, nor sensational, nor obscene, so far as I can avoid those three rocks. Its cost lies in its size, the restricted number of copies printed, & the elaborate nature of the coloured reproductions of portrait drawings which will illustrate it. These drawings will not be to many people's taste." Pierce C. Joyce, senior British staff officer in the field to the Arab regular army, was the officer most intimately associated with Lawrence during the operations described in Seven Pillars . He is one of five superior officers referred to in the preface, and his name occurs frequently. His portrait is featured, about which he comments, "I should like to kill Frank Dobson for his Hogarthian drawing of myself & yet when I met him the other day the homicidal initiative was lacking!" (For full description, please see www.christies.com). COMPRISING: LAWRENCE, T.E. Autograph letter signed ("T.E. Shaw") to "Madam" (presumably Nancy Campbell), Cranwell, Lincolnshire, England, 16 September 1926. 2pp., 4to . Lawrence writes to enquire whether or not the recipient will subscribe to the privately printed edition of Seven Pillars . "The book costs thirty guineas: is very long, and rather dull." -- JOYCE, Colonel Pierce C. Autograph letter signed ("P.C. Joyce") to Mrs. Campbell, Baghdad, 28 December 1925. 8pp., 8vo, with original envelope . Joyce writes about Mrs. Campbell's interest to acquire a copy of Seven Pillars . "A man just from England came in to see us yesterday & tells me he hears Lawrence is about to destroy all existing copies of his book & rewrite it again this year or next - worse than ever!"-- JOYCE, Colonel Pierce C. Autograph letter signed ("Pierce Joyce") to Mrs. Campbell, Galway, 12 October 1927. 3pp., 4to, with original envelope . Discussion about a future visit and Seven Pillars . "I love your enthusiasim over "The Seven Pillars," if you could only have seen nature's setting to the pictures he paints in his beautiful English it would have been the ideal."-- PIKE, Roy Manning. Typed letter signed ("Manning Pike") to "Madam" (presumably Nancy Campbell), Lon

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 261
Auktion:
Datum:
19.06.2014
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
19 June 2014, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a triumph . [London: Privately Printed], 1926.
LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a triumph . [London: Privately Printed], 1926. 4 o (250 x 188 mm). Printed in red and black. 66 plates, including frontispiece portrait of Feisal by Augustus John many colored or tinted, 4 double-page, by Eric Kennington William Roberts Augustus John William Nicholson Paul Nash and others, 4 folding colored maps (with original linen backing), 58 illustrations in text, one colored, by Roberts, Nash, Kennington, Blair-Hughes-Stanton, Gertrude Hermes and others, initials by Edward Wadsworth Tan morocco gilt, gilt-lettered and ruled, edges gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Provenance : Nancy Campbell (original subscriber's bookplate on flyleaf, correspondence from T.E. Lawrence, Manning Pike, and Col. Pierce C. Joyce); Barbara Hutton (1912-1979) heiress to Frank Winfield Woolworth (ownership inscription on flyleaf: "Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow 1941"). PRIVATELY PRINTED EDITION, limited to about 170 "complete" subscriber's copies, INSCRIBED BY LAWRENCE on p. XIX "Complete copy. 1.XII.26 TES.", with a single additional manuscript correction to the illustration list. Additionally signed by the printer H.G. Hodgson at the end of the text. The present copy includes the "Prickly Pear" plate, but not the two Paul Nash illustrations called for on pages 92 and 208, or the Blair-Hughes-Stanton wood engraving that in some copies illustrated the dedicatory poem. Some Notes on the Writing of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Shaw loosely inserted. Clements p. 49 (stating that "only about 100 copies were produced at 30 guineas each"); O'Brien A040. [ With: ] An archive of 7 letters, preserved by Mrs. Colin Campbell an original subscriber, including correspondence with T.E. Lawrence, senior British staff officer Pierce C. Joyce, and publisher Manning Pike. Lawrence discusses the publication of his work: "It is not indiscreet, nor sensational, nor obscene, so far as I can avoid those three rocks. Its cost lies in its size, the restricted number of copies printed, & the elaborate nature of the coloured reproductions of portrait drawings which will illustrate it. These drawings will not be to many people's taste." Pierce C. Joyce, senior British staff officer in the field to the Arab regular army, was the officer most intimately associated with Lawrence during the operations described in Seven Pillars . He is one of five superior officers referred to in the preface, and his name occurs frequently. His portrait is featured, about which he comments, "I should like to kill Frank Dobson for his Hogarthian drawing of myself & yet when I met him the other day the homicidal initiative was lacking!" (For full description, please see www.christies.com). COMPRISING: LAWRENCE, T.E. Autograph letter signed ("T.E. Shaw") to "Madam" (presumably Nancy Campbell), Cranwell, Lincolnshire, England, 16 September 1926. 2pp., 4to . Lawrence writes to enquire whether or not the recipient will subscribe to the privately printed edition of Seven Pillars . "The book costs thirty guineas: is very long, and rather dull." -- JOYCE, Colonel Pierce C. Autograph letter signed ("P.C. Joyce") to Mrs. Campbell, Baghdad, 28 December 1925. 8pp., 8vo, with original envelope . Joyce writes about Mrs. Campbell's interest to acquire a copy of Seven Pillars . "A man just from England came in to see us yesterday & tells me he hears Lawrence is about to destroy all existing copies of his book & rewrite it again this year or next - worse than ever!"-- JOYCE, Colonel Pierce C. Autograph letter signed ("Pierce Joyce") to Mrs. Campbell, Galway, 12 October 1927. 3pp., 4to, with original envelope . Discussion about a future visit and Seven Pillars . "I love your enthusiasim over "The Seven Pillars," if you could only have seen nature's setting to the pictures he paints in his beautiful English it would have been the ideal."-- PIKE, Roy Manning. Typed letter signed ("Manning Pike") to "Madam" (presumably Nancy Campbell), Lon

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 261
Auktion:
Datum:
19.06.2014
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
19 June 2014, New York, Rockefeller Center
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