Not a suitable hobby for an airman: T E Lawrence as publisher

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Lawrence of Oxford

by Valerie Thompson

Not a suitable hobby for an airman: T E Lawrence as publisher -

In 1926 T E Lawrence of Arabia, his identity now thinly disguised under the name of T E Shaw, produced a sumptuously decorated and illustrated privately printed edition of only some 200 copies of his war memoir, Seven Pillars of Wisdom. He had spent much of his time during the intervening years after returning from Arabia in the writing and re-writing of the manuscript.

Lawrence's actions and motives have been subjected to much critical analysis, but the aim of this study is to recount the history of the book, and more particularly to examine, in considerable and sometimes over-pedantic detail, the minutia of its more extraordinary visual aspects.

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Lawrence of Oxford -

Before Arabia, Lawrence spent most of his formative years in Oxford, city of dreaming spires, where his family home on the edge of countryside in North Oxford, church, school, university and a growing interest in archaeology all played their part.

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