Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph.

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Third English Edition, the Limited Issue of 750 numbered copies of which this is Copy Number 681. Publisher's Pigskin spine 79 l. gy. y Br. brown buckram boards 44 s. Br. Single gilt rule along inner edge of leather spine. On front cover [gilt, within crossed swords, in script] the | sword | also means | cleanness | & | death. Gilt lettering to spine. On back cover blind rule along edge of spine leather. Red and yellow head band. Marbled end papers. T.e.gilt. Plain brown paper dust wrapper present. Collation: 25.5 x 19.3 cm: [A]8 B-TT8, 336 leaves, pp. [1-6] 7-672, with 47 plates, 4 in colour, and facsimilies following pp. 20, 22, and 25 with guard tissues before facsimiles and colour plates. A book in Fine condition with an unblemished pigskin spine, in the Very Good rare dust wrapper which has a closed tear to the lower spine and slight loss to head and tail of spine. Now in a cloth covered clamshell box with leather label and gilt lettering to the spine, made by Chris Shaw. O'Brien states that the plain brown paper dust-wrapper is "rarely present". That the wrapper here has been present since publication, is established not only by the fine quality of the leather spine, but by the crossed-swords motif having left its impression on the verso of the wrapper. O'Brien A041. N° de ref. del artículo 103532

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