Mr Jonathan Cape, the publisher, celebrated his eightieth birthday recently. His firm, begun in partnership with Mr C. Wren Howard in 1921, has been responsible for an exemplary standard of craftsmanship. This has been as much a hallmark of its books as its bowl of fruit and satyr. One of Cape’s most ambitious early ventures was the complete edition of Doughty’s “Arabia Deserta.” This brought him in contact with T. E. Lawrence and led to the subsequent publication of “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29070, 5 December 1959, Page 3
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