Bibliographical description of the subscribers' edition
Bibliographical description of the copy of the subscribers' edition held by the
Bodleian Library, Oxford
SEVEN PILLARS/OF/WISDOM/a triumph/1926
Spine 260 mm; pp 250 x 190 mm; aeg; coloured map; pp [I]-XXII; pp [1]-[660]; maps and plates; [full details of un-numbered pages given in Page numbering section]
Front end-papers; 2Ls blank; 1 folded coloured map; pp [I]-[II] blank; p [III] title page; p [IV] blank; frontispiece; p [V] dedicatory poem 'To S.A.'; p [VI] preface - signed 'T.E.S. Cranwell. 15.8.26'; pp VII-XVIII Synopsis; pp XIX- XXII List of illustrations; p [1] blank; pp [2]-652 text, plus 10 unpaginated leaves, at the beginning of each of Books I-X, and 5 tipped-in illustrations; 1L blank; p [653] Damascus . . .'; p [654] blank; p 655 NOMINAL ROLL: HEJAZ ARMOURED CAR COMPANY; p 656 NOMINAL ROLL: TEN POUNDER TALBOT BATTERY; pp 657-659 table of movements; p [660] 'Text and decorations printed by Manning Pike with the assistance/of H. J. Hodgson at 25 Charles Street, London, W.11./Plates by Charles Whittingham and Griggs.'; 3 folded coloured maps and 61 illustrations; 1L blank; back end-paper
p XIX - artist's name 'Roberts' crossed out in black ink against illustration 'The gad-fly' and replaced by 'K'; autographed bottom left-hand corner: 'Complete Copy./I. X II.26 TES.'