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(FLEECE PRESS.) Sims, Reginald G. The Sayings & Doings of T.E. Lawrence. Edited by Dr. Leo John de Freitas. Introduction by John Sims with notes by A.J. Flavell. Tipped-in photographic plates and reproductions plus a separate suite of the six portraits of Lawrence by Sims, taken in White Cottage, Hornsea, made from the original glass-plate negatives. 8vo, full navy goatskin with gilt-lettered spine and initials stamped in black on front cover; publisher's navy linen clamshell box with printed paper spine label.
one of only 30 specially bound copies with the suite of photographs, from a total edition of 300. Denby Dale, West Yorkshire, (1994)
The text was taken from conversations between Lawrence and Wing Commander Sims, while the two were stationed at Bridlington towards the end of Lawrence's RAF career in 1934-35. Finely bound in full blue leather (goatskin) with TES impressed to front board in blue cloth box as issued with TES also impressed to front. A handsome production from Simon Lawrence at the Fleece Press which won the Limited Edition Class in the British Books 1995 Design and Production Awards.
