Travels in Arabia Deserta
DOUGHTY, Charles Montagu
With a New Preface by the Author, Introduction by T.E. Lawrence, and all original Maps, Plans and illustrations. [Fourth English Edition, Third Impression.]
NEAR FINE COPY OF THE THIN-PAPER EDITION
Published: Jonathan Cape [with] Medici Society, [1926]
Stock code: 45205
Price: £114.00
8vo., Fourth Edition thus, Third Impression, with fine portrait frontispiece, numerous plates (a number in collotype and a number folding with original tissue guards present), illustrations, maps and plans in the text and large folding coloured map mounted on cloth, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original navy cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy.
'Lawrence had long admired Doughty's classic and was instrumental in getting the second English edition published by the fledgling firm of Jonathan Cape in conjunction with the Medici Society' (paraphrased from O'Brien). The single-volume, thin paper edition was first published in March 1926; this third impression appeared in September. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. O'Brien A015.