xxiii, [1], 140, [1] pp. Commentary by E.T. Leeds. Edited and with an introduction by J.M. Wilson. Memoir of E.T. Leeds by D.B. Harden. Includes an extra suite of 10 plates from drawings by Richard Kennedy & a saddle-sewn album with black paper covers and a printed paper cover label containing 12 tipped-in 7x9¼" glossy black and white photographs after those taken by T. E. Lawrence (or under his direction) at Carchemish, 1911-1914 (reproduced from the originals with permission of the Trustees of the British Museum), issued only for this edition. Volume illustrated with 12 plates of 24 images from photographs, facsimile documents, drawings, etc.; plus a tipped-in frontispiece; line drawings by Richard Kennedy. 11x8, bound in full dark brown levant morocco with inlaid orange and cream colored morocco designs on the front cover, full brown leather pastedowns, top edge gilt; the extra suite of plates are loosely laid inside a black boards folder, which is housed with the volume and photograph album inside the publisher's original brown buckram clamshell box with a full levant morocco spine that is lettered in gilt. No. V of 20 hand-numbered copies (of which only 16 were originally for sale) bound in full levant morocco with inlaid morocco designs done by Richard Kennedy, with additional proofs of Richard Kennedy's illustrations and the further photographs of the excavations at Carchemish, all in a solander box. First Edition.

Signed by the editor in the colphon. Fifty previously unpublished letters by Lawrence written from excavations in Syria. With publisher's promotional red slip.