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Introduction

Acknowledgements

Notes and abbreviations

The writing of SPoW

The book itself

The illustrations

Appendices



Bibliographical description of the subscribers' edition

Bibliographical description of the copy of the subscribers' edition held by the Bodleian Library, Oxford

SEVEN PILLARS/OF/WISDOM/a triumph/1926

Spine 260 mm; pp 250 x 190 mm; aeg; coloured map; pp [I]-XXII; pp [1]-[660]; maps and plates; [full details of un-numbered pages given in Page numbering section]

Front end-papers; 2Ls blank; 1 folded coloured map; pp [I]-[II] blank; p [III] title page; p [IV] blank; frontispiece; p [V] dedicatory poem 'To S.A.'; p [VI] preface - signed 'T.E.S. Cranwell. 15.8.26'; pp VII-XVIII Synopsis; pp XIX- XXII List of illustrations; p [1] blank; pp [2]-652 text, plus 10 unpaginated leaves, at the beginning of each of Books I-X, and 5 tipped-in illustrations; 1L blank; p [653] Damascus . . .'; p [654] blank; p 655 NOMINAL ROLL: HEJAZ ARMOURED CAR COMPANY; p 656 NOMINAL ROLL: TEN POUNDER TALBOT BATTERY; pp 657-659 table of movements; p [660] 'Text and decorations printed by Manning Pike with the assistance/of H. J. Hodgson at 25 Charles Street, London, W.11./Plates by Charles Whittingham and Griggs.'; 3 folded coloured maps and 61 illustrations; 1L blank; back end-paper

p XIX - artist's name 'Roberts' crossed out in black ink against illustration 'The gad-fly' and replaced by 'K'; autographed bottom left-hand corner: 'Complete Copy./I. X II.26 TES.'