Travels in Arabia Deserta

DOUGHTY, Charles Montagu (1843-1926), [LAWRENCE, T.E., introduction]

Published by London: Jonathan Cape, 1936

[Arabia Travel] NEW 'DEFINITIVE' EDITION, First Thus. Complete in two volumes. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.674; pp.696. Complete with a frontispiece and illustrated plates to volume I, and a large folding map to each volume. Publisher's brown buckram with gilt titles to spines. Top edges brown, others untrimmed. Typographic bookplate of Jessie Strachan to front fly-leaf, quoting Milton. Some spotting and toning to edges, otherwise a clean copy internally. Light wear only to cloth. Very good. Doughty's epic two-year journey through Europe to The Holy Land and Syria in the 1870s remained almost unknown to the public until, in 1908, an abridgement by Garnett under the title Wanderings in Arabia immediately gained for Doughty a host of admirers. In 1921 'Travels in Arabia Deserta', long since out of print, was reissued with a new preface by Doughty and an introduction by T.E. Lawrence, and this 'definitive' edition followed in 1936. Seller Inventory # 64375

Bibliographic Details

Title: Travels in Arabia Deserta
Publisher: London: Jonathan Cape, 1936
Binding: Hardcover