DOVES PRESS & BROWNING (Robert)

Men & Women.

2 vols. One of 250 copies on paper, with an additional 13 on vellum. This copy one of around 50 without flourishing by Edward Johnston. 4to., 24x17cm, [1-6] 7-200 [2]pp, and [1-6] 7-192 [2]. Most likely original variant binding of quarter vellum over blue paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, in handsome later quarter red Morocco slipcase with spine lettered in gilt. Hammersmith, Doves Press. 1908, 1908.

£4,000.00
DOVES PRESS & BROWNING (Robert)
Men & Women.

Good, covers slightly soiled, wear to spine where paper meets vellum with some loss to paper of vol. 1.

Ownership signature in pencil ‘T.E.L’ to both volumes, booksellers ticket from Philip C. Duschnes to lower pastedown of both volumes.

T. E. Lawrence’s ownership of a copy of the Doves Press edition of Men & Women is confirmed by the catalogue of his library published in T.E. Lawrence by his Friends (1937), which confirms also that they were signed by Lawrence ‘T.E.L’, although no identifying details of the copies are given.

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