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[SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY, editor) Aurora Australis], dummy copy, [East Antarctica, 1908]
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Footnotes
A RELIC OF ANTARCTIC BOOK PRODUCTION. "This probably was a dummy or mock-up, possibly done up by Day to refine the binding process" (Robert B. Stephenson, census on www.antarctic-circle.org/, copy number 38). The portion of the spine attached to the boards is narrower than in a finished copy, the boards marginally shorter, the spine thicker, and the blindstamping differently aligned.
Loosely inserted in the volume is a charcoal and ink sketch on different paper, with partial blindstamp of the Royal Watercolour Society. The comic sketch depicts a Scotsman threatening an Englishman with a sword. The artist is unidentified.
Provenance: Henry J.L. Dunlop (1876-1931), Chief Engineer on the Nimrod, ownership inscription in pencil inside upper cover; by descent to the present owner.