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of the T. E. Lawrence Society Vol. XIV , No. 1, Autumn 2004 Edited by Philip Kerrigan Jeremy Wilson, 'John E. Mack, MD' (6-7) A tribute to the late John Edward Mack. Jeremy Wilson, 'Seven Pillars - triumph and tragedy (8-54) This issue of the Journal is devoted to the writing, printing and publishing of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom. It would be difficult to find a literary work that has a more complex bibliography than the Seven Pillars. In his article, Jeremy Wilson describes in detail how the book evolved, the various abridgements that were considered, rejected and finally accepted and published as the limited Subscribers' edition of 1926. Manning
Pike, 'Notes on printing Seven Pillars of Wisdom' (55-9) The author describes how he got involved in printing the 1926 Subscribers’ edition. Little was known of Pike until these notes were discovered Peter Wood, 'In Search of the Elusive Manning Pike' (60-73)
Nelson
Pike, John Pike, Roy Manning Pike, Information
about Pike's colourful life was unearthed by the research carried out by
Peter Wood, and forms the basis of his article. He was trained as an
engineer and had a flair for designing items such as bronze spirit
lamps. When the Government announced a competition for the design and
manufacture of a bronze memorial plaque to be given to the next-of-kin
of those who had lost their lives in World War I, Pike was successful in
being awarded the contract. Peter Wood was a motoring journalist who is
now writing a book on the plaques. H. J. Hodgson, 'How the Seven Pillars of Wisdom was printed' (74-8) At the age of fourteen Herbert Hodgson, following his father’s trade, was apprenticed to a printer. At the outbreak of World War I he joined the Territorial Army and when demobilised in 1919 he was unable, like many ex-servicemen, to obtain regular employment and was forced to accept casual work. The oppor- tunity arose to join Manning Pike in printing a private press book, the Seven Pillars of Wisdom under the supervision of its author.
A
Victoria platen press similar to the one Both
men were limited in their printing skills but after three years working
with Lawrence, Hodgson had reached a standard that enabled him to join
the famed Gregynog Press as pressman. Hazel K. Bell, '"Discursive, dispersed, heterogeneous..." indexing Seven Pillars of Wisdom' (79-86) The
indexes provided in the Jonathan Cape 1935 edition of Seven Pillars were inadequate. When publishing the 1922 text Jeremy
Wilson seized the opportunity to engage a first class indexer, Hazel K.
Bell, to compile a comprehensive index for which many scholars and
others will be very grateful. In her article Mrs Bell has described the
problems and vicissitudes she had to contend with before it was
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