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LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). Crusader Castles, edited by A.W. Lawrence. London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1936.
2 volumes, 4° (249 x 190mm). Titles printed in red. Collotype frontispiece in volume II. Collotype and line facsimiles, illustrations, maps and plans after Lawrence in the text, many full-page, some colour-printed. 2 folding maps after H. Pirie-Gordon contained in a loosely-inserted envelope. Original red crushed half morocco over cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spines gilt with title and press device, top edge gilt, others uncut (extremities lightly rubbed, spines slightly faded, cloth lightly marked).
FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 24 OF 1,000 COPIES. Originally written in 1910 as an undergraduate thesis based on researches in Britain, France and the Near East, Lawrence revised, amended and enlarged Crusader Castles after his graduation, but never published it. The present, first edition was edited by his brother from Lawrence's annotated typescript and other sources, with letters written by Lawrence to his family during his research journeys added to the thesis. 'Lawrence's thesis in this work is counter to the accepted view that improvements in military architecture had been brought back from the Near East by the Crusaders: he believed rather that the improvements had been developed in Europe and taken by the Crusaders to the Near East. This is a discussion not yet entirely settled' (O'Brien). Chanticleer 112; Clements pp.27-28; O'Brien A188-189. (2)
2 volumes, 4° (249 x 190mm). Titles printed in red. Collotype frontispiece in volume II. Collotype and line facsimiles, illustrations, maps and plans after Lawrence in the text, many full-page, some colour-printed. 2 folding maps after H. Pirie-Gordon contained in a loosely-inserted envelope. Original red crushed half morocco over cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spines gilt with title and press device, top edge gilt, others uncut (extremities lightly rubbed, spines slightly faded, cloth lightly marked).
FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 24 OF 1,000 COPIES. Originally written in 1910 as an undergraduate thesis based on researches in Britain, France and the Near East, Lawrence revised, amended and enlarged Crusader Castles after his graduation, but never published it. The present, first edition was edited by his brother from Lawrence's annotated typescript and other sources, with letters written by Lawrence to his family during his research journeys added to the thesis. 'Lawrence's thesis in this work is counter to the accepted view that improvements in military architecture had been brought back from the Near East by the Crusaders: he believed rather that the improvements had been developed in Europe and taken by the Crusaders to the Near East. This is a discussion not yet entirely settled' (O'Brien). Chanticleer 112; Clements pp.27-28; O'Brien A188-189. (2)
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