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Some fine-press editions of writing by T.E. Lawrence, 1926–2012
1926: Manning Pike and Herbert Hodgson, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, subscribers abridgement, c.190 copies.
1932: Bruce Rogers, Emery Walker and Wilfred Merton, The Odyssey of Homer, translated by T. E. Lawrence, 530 copies (reprinted in OUP's 'Hesperides Series', also designed by Bruce Rogers, 2,500 copies, 1940).
1933: William Edwin Rudge, Letters from T. E. Shaw to Bruce Rogers 200 copies.
1936: Bruce Rogers, More Letters from T. E. Shaw to Bruce Rogers 300 copies.
1936: Corvinus Press, A Letter from T. E. Lawrence to his Mother, 24 copies.
1936: Corvinus Press, Letters from T. E. Shaw to Viscount Carlow, 17 copies.
1936: Golden Cockerel Press, T. E. Lawrence, Crusader Castles, 1,000 copies.
1937: Corvinus Press, The Diary of T. E. Lawrence MXMXI, 203 copies.
1937: Corvinus Press, T. E. Lawrence, An Essay on Flecker, 30 copies.
1937: Corvinus Press, T. E. Lawrence, Two Arabic Folk Tales, 30 copies.
1939: Golden Cockerel Press, T. E. Lawrence, Secret Despatches from Arabia, 1,000 copies.
1940: Golden Cockerel Press, T. E. Lawrence, Men in Print, 500 copies.
1942: Golden Cockerel Press, Shaw-Ede, 500 copies.
1959: Officina Bodoni, From a Letter of T. E. Lawrence, c.75 copies.
1981: Limited Editions Club, The Odyssey of Homer, 2,000 copies.
1988: Whittington Press, T. E. Lawrence, Letters to E. T. Leeds, 750 copies.
1997: Strawberry Press, T. E. Lawrence, Two Arabic Folk Tales, 100 copies.
1997: Castle Hill Press, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text, three vols, 752 sets (Library Edition, 1,225 copies, 2003).
1997: Castle Hill Press, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Parallel 1922 and 1926 Texts, two vols, 37 sets (further issue of 37+13 two-vol sets, 2008).
1998: Strawberry Press, T. E. Lawrence, Four Letters from T. E. Shaw to Viscount Carlow, 60 copies.
2000: Castle Hill Press, T. E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Henry Williamson, [702] 477 copies.
2000-2009: Castle Hill Press, T. E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, four vols, (the projected limitation of 702 sets was reduced to 475 sets in Vol. iv.)
2004: The Fleece Press, T. E. Lawrence, The Golden Reign, 500 copies.
2004: Castle Hill Press, Le Gigantesque | The Forest Giant, translated by T.E. Lawrence, parallel French | English text, 352 copies.
2005: Heavenly Monkey, An Invitation to British Columbia: a letter from T. E. Lawrence to Martin A. Grainger, 70 copies.
2007: Reading Room Press, T. E. Lawrence, Playground Football, 60 copies.
2008: Castle Hill Press, T. E. Lawrence (compiler), Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula, compiled by T. E. Lawrence, 227 copies.
2009: Castle Hill Press, T. E. Lawrence, Towards 'An English Fourth', 227 copies.
2009: Castle Hill Press, T. E. Lawrence, 'The Mint' and Later Writings About Service Life [large-format edition] 277 copies [Library Edition 210, 475 copies]
2010: Castle Hill Press, T. E. Lawrence, Correspondence with E. M. Forster and F. L. Lucas, 377 copies.
2012: Castle Hill Press, T. E. Lawrence Boats for the R.A.F. 1929-1935, 227 copies
T. E. Lawrence chronology
1888 16 August: born at Tremadoc, Wales
1896-1907: City of Oxford High School for Boys
1907-9: Jesus College, Oxford, B.A., 1st Class Hons, 1909
1910-14: Magdalen College, Oxford (Senior Demy), while working at the British Museum's excavations at Carchemish
1915-16: Military Intelligence Dept, Cairo
1916-18: Liaison Officer with the Arab Revolt
1919: Attended the Paris Peace Conference
1919-22: wrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1921-2: Adviser on Arab Affairs to Winston Churchill at the Colonial Office
1922 August: Enlisted in the Ranks of the RAF
1923 January: discharged from the RAF
1923 March: enlisted in the Tank Corps
1923: translated a French novel, The Forest Giant
1924-6: prepared the subscribers' abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1927-8: stationed at Karachi, then Miranshah
1927 March: Revolt in the Desert, an abridgement of Seven Pillars, published
1928: completed The Mint, began translating Homer's Odyssey
1929-33: stationed at Plymouth
1931: started working on RAF boats
1932: his translation of the Odyssey published
1933-5: attached to MAEE, Felixstowe
1935 February: retired from the RAF
1935 19 May: died from injuries received in a motor-cycle crash on 13 May
1935 21 May: buried at Moreton, Dorset