![]() ![]() Original blue-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered in blind. The presiding magistrate, Sir John Dickinson, who had lost his only son at the Front six weeks earlier, condemned the book as utter filth and ordered it to beburned: "some 1,195 were destroyed" (Roberts & Poplawski). In November 1915 the book was prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act. ![]() Lawrence's explicit portrayal of the marital and sexual relations of three generations, with suggestions of lesbianism and male impotency in a career soldier, was strikingly out of step with the tenor of the times. The Defence of the Realm Act gave the government powers to suppress anything held detrimental to the conduct of the war. Methuen published The Rainbow in September 1915 in a print run of 2,527 copies, but quickly withdrew it from sale in the face of almost universal hostility. Lawrence's pioneering novel was rapidly suppressed, with a large number of copies destroyed. ![]() First edition, first impression, publisher's presentation copy with their circular ink stamp to the title page signed or inscribed copies of this title are scarce, making this a particularly appealing copy. ![]()
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