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"One of the Largest Private Collections to Come on the Market"Proceedings At The Unveiling Of The Memorial To Lawrence of Arabia
City of Oxford
High School For Boys
3 October 1936
First Edition
Oxford: J. Thornton & Son, 1937
Frontispiece – The plaque memorializing Lawrence of Arabia (Lawrence attended Oxford High School from 1896-1907, hence the dates on the plaque)
8vo., grey wrappers, printed in blue; sewn, light wear at edges.
23pp
There exists another issue of this pamphlet without the publisher’s name on either the front cover or title page which was distributed to the boys and monitors of the High School.
The text of Winston Churchill’s dedication speech at the unveiling of the plaque is on pages 9-18. It was first printed in Dec. 1936 in the City of Oxford High School Magazine. Then, in 1954 it was reprinted in The Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and His Brothers.
The plaque was a low, bronze relief by his friend Eric Kennington, the principle illustrator of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Woods D(b)50(b) also D(b)50(a) and B53
Cohen A104
Item #718
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