SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM. The Complete 1922 Text.

Three volumes. Quarto. Publisher's original quarter buckram and grey paper covered boards, in dustwrapper and burgundy cloth slipcase. Two text volumes (volume one with two folding maps in a pocket at the rear), and one volume of plates, comprising 41 colour portraits from the original oil, soft pastel, chalk and pencil portraits by William Roberts, Eric Kennington, Augustus John, Henry Lamb, R. M. Young, William Nicholson, William Rothenstein, Colin Gill, John Singer Sargent, Gilbert Spencer and Frank Dobson and 86 photographs in black and white. All three volumes are in fine condition, the bindings square and tight, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly rubbed dustwrappers that are without fading, loss or tears. All three volumes are housed in the original cloth covered slipcase.

Issued in a limited edition of 650 copies (from a total edition of 752), this example is numbered 389. The first unexpurgated publication of the original 1922 Oxford Text of T. E. Lawrence's magnum opus. The text for which was taken from the manuscript in the Bodleian Library and T.E. Lawrence's annotated copy of the 1922 Oxford Times printing.