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Introduction by Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, Director of the Arab Bureau 1916-1920.
A Limited Edition; 1 of 500 copies, this being copy number 102. 4to. (253*188 mm), original quarter aquamarine morocco over cream cloth by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, top edge gilt and others untrimmed, raised bands, gilt tooling. [2], 3-50 pp, [1], [1] limitation. Printed by Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter at the Golden Cockerel Press, Rolls Passage, London, E.C.4. in Perpetua type on Arnold's mould-made paper, and finished on the 30th day of April, 1940.
The spine gently sunned, some light markings to the boards; a very good copy.
Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1868-1926), "traveller, archaeologist, and diplomatist, was born at Washington Hall, co. Durham, on 14 July 1868, the elder child and only daughter of (Thomas) Hugh Bell (1844–1931), an ironmaster, who succeeded his father as second baronet in 1904, and his first wife, Mary (or Maria; 1844–1871), daughter of John Shield of Newcastle." (ODNB.) Bell developed an…
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