T. E. Lawrence’s copy
BROWNE, Thomas.
Religio Medici, Urn Burial, Christian Morals, and other Essays.
[Printed by the Ballantyne Press, and sold by Hacon and Ricketts, The Vale Press, London, and John Lane, New York, 1902].
Folio, pp. cxcviii, [2, colophon]; woodcut border of vine leaves to first page of text (designed by Charles Ricketts and engraved by C. Keats); some very occasional and very mild foxing to the foot of some leaves (inevitable in this work), else a fine copy, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in 1968 (receipt laid in) in quarter red morocco and buff cloth, spine lettered gilt, for the poet and broadcaster D. G. Bridson, with his bookplate; discreet ownership inscription ‘T.E.S.’ [i.e T. E. Shaw] to one of the numerous front free endleaves.
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First edition thus, limited to 310 unnumbered copies plus 10 on vellum (the limitation not here stated).
T. E. Lawrence was a serious and committed bibliophile, with a more than passing interest in private press books. This volume, signed by him in initials, is named in the list of ‘Books at Clouds Hill’ in T. E. Lawrence by his Friends, though it does not bear the posthumous Clouds Hill bookplate inserted by Bumpus at the time the books were sold (perhaps removed by Bridson at the time of re-binding).
