Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Corrects the census claim. The earliest printing is the 1922 "Oxford" text — eight copies set and run off on a proofing press at the Oxford Times works (six survive), roughly one-third longer than the later text. In bibliographical terms that is the first edition, but it was never published: it served as a substitute for typescript and was not issued until Castle Hill Press printed it in 1997. The first PUBLISHED edition is therefore the 1926 Subscribers'/Cranwell edition, London, privately printed for subscribers (c. 211 copies) — the edition the census intends. A separate 1926 Doubleday, Doran copyright edition of 22 copies was printed in New York from proofs of the Subscribers' sheets solely to secure US copyright; it omits the plates and is not a trade issue. Both the 1935 Jonathan Cape (London) and 1935 Doubleday, Doran (New York) editions are collected as the first editions available to the general public, released within weeks of Lawrence's death in May 1935. The Cape limited issue of 750 copies and the Cape trade issue both appeared in 1935; dealer sources place the limited one day ahead of the trade, but that ordering could not be confirmed against a bibliography and should not be relied on.