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LAWRENCE (T.E.)
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LAWRENCE'S DENTIST'S COPY OF THE 1926 CRANWELL EDITION OF SEVEN PILLARS, ONE OF THE 170 COMPLETE COPIES.
It had been Lawrence's intention that every copy be unique in some way, and so he used six different binders in addition to Sangorski and Sutcliffe. In common with most of the complete copies, Warwick's has page XV mis-paginated as VIII, and Kennington's coloured landscape tail-piece ('False Quiet') is present at end of page XVIII. The 'Prickly Pear' plate is included, but not the two Paul Nash line drawings called for on pages 92 ('The prophet's tomb') and 208 ('A garden'), or the Blair Hughes-Stanton wood-engraving that in some copies illustrated the dedicatory poem.
Provenance: William Warwick James (1874-1965), a dental surgeon who lived and ran a large practice at 2-3 Park Crescent, London WC1. He was Lawrence's dentist and friend from about 1922, at a time when Lawrence's teeth were notoriously bad. "In 1922, six teeth were missing and two were defective. Some time thereafter, a prominent London dentist repaired the damage with gold teeth and fillings that Graves considered vulgar. Lawrence was pleased with them, asking his mother to tell the dentist 'that his artificial masterpiece, my mouth, still stands superbly. It cracks nuts'" (Harold Orlans, T.E. Lawrence: Biography of a Broken Hero, 2002 p.115). James also came to know A.W. and Mrs Lawrence, and contributed the chapter on Lawrence's collection of records, 'Music - Gramophone records at Clouds Hill', to TE Lawrence by his Friends, 1937 (see lot 283).





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