GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. - T.E. LAWRENCE. Crusader Castles. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1936. 2 vols. Limited edition, this being number 432 of 1000 copies, 4to (247 x 183mm.) Titles in red, numerous photographic illustrations. (Lacking the 2 maps, label residue on pastedowns, small reference labels on titles and stamps verso, toning.) Original russet half morocco bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (large damp-stain to upper cover of volume 2). Note: originally written in 1910 as an undergraduate thesis, this work was put together after Lawrence's death in 1935- with part 2 containing his letters home from bicycle trips to France to research medieval castles in 1907. In 1909 his research took him to Lebanon and Syria. The question of whether the improvements in military architecture were taken from the West and exported by the Crusaders to the East- as Lawrence believed- or if they were imported from the East to the West, is still contested (2).