It was to run to five editions before being withdrawn. Live Auction 1348 The Spiro Family Collection, Part II: Explorers, Including Lot 102 LAWRENCE, T.E. This was a straightforward abridgement completed in a brief period whilst Lawrence was at Cranwell, published in 1927. To assist in financing the scheme Lawrence offered the publication of an abridgement, Revolt in the Desert to the publisher Jonathan Cape. It was Eric Kennington who put Lawrence in contact with an American, Manning Pike, who was a newly qualified printer, to undertake the printing, he was later joined by an experienced pressman, Herbert Hodgson. There is interesting correspondence between Lawrence and Buxton that throws light upon the financing of the volume. Publication date 1922 Topics West Bengal Public Library Publisher N.A Collection digitallibraryindia JaiGyan Language English.
The Eric Kennington pastels were being printed by Whittingham & Griggs at the then enormous price of around ten shillings per print. SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM by LAWRENCE, T.E. Hogarth of the Ashmolean, Lionel Curtis of All Souls, Oxford and Alan Dawnay (another wartime colleague) were present, a scheme was agreed upon whereby 120 copies could be printed, with all of the planned illustrations, for sale at 30 guineas per copy. Robin Buxton formerly of the Imperial Camel Corps and now a manager of the Liverpool & Martins Bank, assisted with the financing of the project. The publishing and printing of the 1926 edition in a private edition was a long drawn out and complex process. There then followed the editing of the text and the plan to produce the sumptuous limited edition issued to subscribers.
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