Annotations on Some Minor Writings of "T.E. Lawrence"

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LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies of which 450 were for sale and of which this is Number '431'. Original orange cloth lettered in black on upper board. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to original dust-jacket with a portrait of Lawrence to upper panel reproduced from the frontis, entitled 'T.E. Shaw, Cecil Court, March 1934 an unpublished drawing by Frederick Carter A.R.E.' A little soiling to dust-jacket, minor offset browning to endpapers. Octavo. pp. x, 11-28, [2]. A book in Very Good condition in a Very Good dust-jacket which is not price-clipped (showing '5/-'). 'John Gawsworth' was the pen name of Terrance Armstrong First edition, no. 431 of 500 copies. 'Annotations' was the second bibliographical work on Lawrence to be published, and was written by the poet, author, bibliographer, and bookseller T.I.F. Armstrong (also known as 'John Gawsworth'), who possessed 'a bibliographic talent that led Lawrence Durrell to write that "had he cared to be a bookseller he would now be the greatest one in England"' (ODNB). Armstrong's introduction explains that, '[t]he greater part of the bookman notes that follow were compiled early in 1934 to serve as a complement to Mr. T. German-Reed's Bibliographical Notes on T.E. Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" and "Revolt in the Desert" published in 1928. They were originally compiled for personal reference; and one gusty [M]arch afternoon, shortly after their first drafting, were examined by Shaw during one of our Holborn walks together. He, good-humouredly, judging them "correct but somewhat incomplete"; and declined further comment. [.] Provisionally, these annotations may serve "the questing crew" to some purpose' (p. vii). The frontispiece is a previously-unpublished drawing by Frederick Carter: 'T.E. Shaw, Cecil Court, March 1934'. O'Brien, E077. N° de ref. del artículo 101277

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