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116 LAWRENCE, T. E. Secret Despatches from Arabia. [Waltham St Lawrence:] Golden Cockerel Press, 1939 ONE OF 30 COPIES SPECIALLY BOUND First edition, number 1 of 30 copies bound in pigskin and with the 6-page facsimile. “The majority of Lawrence’s contributions to the Arab Bulletin are published in this volume. In addition to these items, ‘Syrian Cross Currents’, previously unpublished, is included; this was taken from a manuscript on Arab Bureau paper” (O’Brien). Secret Despatches from Arabia was the second and most extensive of four books printed by the Golden Cockerel Press based on Lawrence’s literary remains. The entire edition was limited to 1,000 numbered copies. The Arab Bureau’s secret bulletin was first issued in June 1916 with a circulation of 26 copies only. Large octavo. Original white full pigskin, raised bands, gilt spine lettering, gilt tooling to board edges and turn-ins, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Housed in original tan cloth slipcase. Portrait frontispiece, 6 pp. collotype reproduction of the manuscript of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom . With detached bookplate of Gertrude Altmann & Wolf Plecher. Spine toned with ends lightly rubbed, boards bright with a little finger soiling, adhesive residue and browning to first blank where bookplate once affixed, internally bright. A
Appended to the above is The Country housewifes garden which has the distinction of being the first book written in this country avowedly for women gardeners. It is full of practical information for the lady of the house concerning the herb and kitchen gardens, including various illustrations of flower knots, and offering advice on the husbandry of bees” (Henrey). There would not be another book on gardening written specifically for women for over a century. Small quarto (195 × 134 mm). 20th-century calf by Edmund Worrall of Birmingham, red morocco label, green gilt- patterned endpapers. Woodcut diagrams in text, divisional title page for Country-Houswifes Garden . 20th-century bookplate of Fox Pointe collection to front pastedown, and of Ann
near-fine copy in the very good slipcase with light rubbing, some soiling and marking, and a small split to one edge. ¶ Cock-a-Hoop P145; O’Brien A226. £5,250 [153695] 117 LAWSON, William. A New Orchard, and Garden; or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich orchard . . . now the second time corrected and much enlarged. London: printed by W. Wilson, for John Harison, and are to be sold at his shop, 1648 including the first english book on gardening for women An attractive early edition of this popular guide to gardening, first published in 1618, and undergoing many editions in the following years; this edition including the Country Housewifes Garden . Lawson (1553–1635) was a Yorkshire clergyman; a strong moral tone, emphasizing the improving nature of gardening, pervades the work. “He wrote from experience acquired over more than forty-eight years, and his book displays his great love of gardening.
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