LAWRENCE. T.E: CRUSADER CASTLES

London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1936

FIRST EDITIONS. 2 vols. 4to., half brown morocco, cream cloth, top edges gilt, cloth slightly spotted.

Lawrence gathered material for Crusader Castles on a solitary walking trek in the Near East in 1909. Vol. I contains Lawrence’s Oxford thesis of 1910 and vol. II contains letters written to his family about military architecture with photographs and drawings made by Lawrence.

Reference: O’Brien A188 & A189