Name: Auction: [Lawrence, T. E.] - Eric Kennington (1888-1960) Set of endpaper designs for the Cranwell edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, c.1926
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 1638 GBP
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Head of Sale, Cathy Tait, is delighted to present our first Books &amp; Manuscripts auction of 2025, which took place on Wednesday 05 February in our historic saleroom in Edinburgh and online.Manuscript and archive material lead the way in the sale, with a signed letter by Mary I of England (Mary Tudor), a fascinating English Civil War medical text and an account of a voyage undertaken by the East India Company ship the “Swift”, a journey instrumental in the treatment and prevention of scurvy.Further highlights of the sale include an intriguing collection of detective and adventure novels from the golden age of mystery fiction, a near-complete collection of the output of the T.N. Foulis Press and an extremely rare 1915 copy of the Persian Gulf Pilot.Buyer's Guide:&nbsp;

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4 wood-engraved proofs on india paper, 25.4 x 20.5cm, each separately mounted to sheet of thicker paper (not laid down), housed in custom red quarter morocco solander box with spine gilt-lettered ‘Kennington End Papers to Seven Pillars’, manuscript label to inside front cover of box reading ‘Endpapers of Seven Pillars by E. H. Kennington who called them: The Eternal Itch, The World, The Flesh, The Devil'

Set of endpaper designs for the Cranwell edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, c.1926

[Lawrence, T. E.] - Eric Kennington (1888-1960)

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[Lawrence, T. E.] - Eric Kennington (1888-1960)

Set of endpaper designs for the Cranwell edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, c.1926

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