Seven pillars of wisdom 19267/6/2023 Robert ("Robin") Vere Buxton (presentation inscription from the author) Sir Richard Levinge Bt (Buxton's stepson sold Sotheby's London, 22 July 1985, lot 294). Contemporary brown calf, gilt-ruled borders on on sides incorporating interlace ornament at corners, gilt-lettered on front cover "The Seven Pillars," spine in six compartments, each with gilt-ruled panel, gilt-lettered in one, original endpapers by Kennington, side and lower edges mostly uncut, edges gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (a few minor scuffs, small stain on front cover). 66 plates, including frontispiece portrait of Feisal by Augustus John, many colored or tinted, 4 double-page, by Eric Kennington, William Roberts, Augustus John, William Nicholson, Paul Nash and others, THIS COPY WITH ADDITIONAL PLATE BY BLAIR HUGHES-STANTON INSERTED BEFORE TITLE 4 folding colored maps (linen-reinforced at folds frontispiece map creased and curled slightly), 58 illustrations in text, one colored, by Roberts, Nash, Kennington, Blair-Hughes-Stanton, Gerturde Hermes and others, initials by Edward Wadsworth.
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