PUBLISHED TO ACCOMPANY THE MAJOR EXHIBITION ‘LAWRENCE OF ARABIA:
THE LIFE, THE LEGEND’ AND FROM THE LIBRARY OF ITS JOINT HISTORICAL ADVISER JEREMY WILSON
BROWN, Malcolm. Lawrence of Arabia: the Life, the Legend. London: CS Graphics Pte Ltd for Thames & Hudson, 2005.
Quarto (269 x 245mm), pp. 208. Numerous colour-printed and monochrome illustrations, some full- or double-page. (A few light spots.) Original purple boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, upper board blocked in blind with publisher’s device, orange endpapers, dustwrapper, not price-clipped. (Dustwrapper slightly creased, spotted on verso.) A very good copy. Provenance: Jeremy Michael Wilson (1944-2017, booklabel on upper pastedown).
First edition. The documentary-maker and military historian Malcolm Brown (1930-2017) first became interested in T.E. Lawrence in the early 1960s, when he co-produced the television documentary ‘T.E. Lawrence 1888-1935’ (1962) for the BBC, and he went on to publish a number of books on Lawrence, including A Touch of Genius: the Life of T.E. Lawrence, co-written with Julia Cave (London, 1988), The Letters of T.E. Lawrence (London, 1988), and T.E. Lawrence (London, 2003). Brown’s Lawrence of Arabia: the Life, the Legend was published to accompany the major Imperial War Museum exhibition of the same title (2005-2006).
This copy was formerly in the library of the distinguished Lawrence scholar Jeremy Wilson, the editor of T.E. Lawrence’s Minorities (London, 1971) and the author of the National Portrait Gallery catalogue T.E. Lawrence: Lawrence of Arabia(London, 1988) and the authoritative biography Lawrence of Arabia: the Authorised Biography of T.E. Lawrence(London, 1989), of which the last is listed in Brown’s ‘Further Reading’ on p. 205. Wilson and Brown served as the joint historical advisers to the Imperial War Museum for the exhibition ‘Lawrence of Arabia: the Life, the Legend’, and Brown expressed his gratitude to Wilson in the ‘Acknowledgements’ (p. 205).
Cf. O’Brien sE548 (first American edition).
£29.50
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