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[SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY, editor) Aurora Australis], dummy copy, [East Antarctica, 1908] image 1
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[SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY, editor)
Aurora Australis], dummy copy, [East Antarctica, 1908]

1 February 2017, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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[SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY, editor)

Aurora Australis], dummy copy, 58 blank leaves with Abbey Mills watermark, loosely inserted ink sketch (see note), first and last leaves dust-soiled, green binding ties, original calf-backed wooden boards made from venesta packing crate by Bernard Day with stencilled letters "RATIONS" and "RCTIC / 1907" inside upper and lower covers respectively, spine blindstamped with the title and the Expedition's 'trademark' device (the placement of these differing from normal copies), extremities rubbed, 4to (260 x 190mm.), [East Antarctica, 1908]

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.

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