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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)
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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)
"Troopin', Troopin', Troopin' to the Sea." "O.H.M.S." An illustrated Record of the voyage of the S.S. "Tintagel Castle" conveying twelve hundred soldiers from Southampton to Cape Town March 1900 Recorded and Illustrated by W. McLean (Surgeon) and E.H.Shackleton (Third Officer). London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Ltd., for Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Limited, 1900. Small folio (28.4 x 19.5cm.) 60pp. Title in red and black. Half-tone frontispiece and 62 illustrations. Original blue glazed paper-covered boards, titled on upper cover with integral half-tone illustration (somewhat scuffed, small chips and tears to backstrip).
PROVENANCE:
Lady Shackleton (Ernest Shackleton's presentation inscription on front pastedown 'E to E/July 1900./"The First Fruits"'), and thence by descent.
ONE OF THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPIES OF SHACKLETON'S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK, PRESENTED TO HIS FUTURE WIFE: EMILY DORMAN. 'The South African War had broken out, and Shackleton was transferred to the Tintagel Castle, 3500 tonne register, with the rank of third officer, and the duty of carrying troops from Southampton to the Cape. The two voyages he made in the trooper kept him busy from 14 December 1899 to 31 May 1900, every hour being filled with congenial tasks by way of duty and recreation... his delight was in the preparation of his first book in collaboration with Dr. W. McLean.... it was profusely illustrated... showing all phases of life on board a troop-ship. Before he returned to London he had secured more than 2000 subscriptions of 2s. 6d. for the book, so that its financial success was assured in advance.... On returning to England at the end of May 1900, Shackleton had five months' leave, part of which he employed with Dr. McLean in seeing O.H.M.S. through the press and in distributing the volume to subscribers, for which they were their own publishers and booksellers.' (H.R. Mill, The Life of Ernest Shackleton, London, 1922, pp.53-55).
'Two copies were particularly important to Shackleton. One, specially bound, was presented to Queen Victoria; the other was inscribed 'E. to E. July 1900. "The First Fruits".' (M. and J. Fisher, Shackleton, London, 1957, p.15).
Shackleton had first met Emily Dorman (a friend of his sister Kathleen) in the summer of 1897. 'He was twenty-three, and she six years older, a tall, dark-haired young woman with a good figure; not exactly beautiful, but definitely attractive, and with a formidable hint of motherly firmness behind a soft manner.' (R. Huntford, Shackleton, London, 1996, p.19)
"Troopin', Troopin', Troopin' to the Sea." "O.H.M.S." An illustrated Record of the voyage of the S.S. "Tintagel Castle" conveying twelve hundred soldiers from Southampton to Cape Town March 1900 Recorded and Illustrated by W. McLean (Surgeon) and E.H.Shackleton (Third Officer). London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Ltd., for Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Limited, 1900. Small folio (28.4 x 19.5cm.) 60pp. Title in red and black. Half-tone frontispiece and 62 illustrations. Original blue glazed paper-covered boards, titled on upper cover with integral half-tone illustration (somewhat scuffed, small chips and tears to backstrip).
PROVENANCE:
Lady Shackleton (Ernest Shackleton's presentation inscription on front pastedown 'E to E/July 1900./"The First Fruits"'), and thence by descent.
ONE OF THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPIES OF SHACKLETON'S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK, PRESENTED TO HIS FUTURE WIFE: EMILY DORMAN. 'The South African War had broken out, and Shackleton was transferred to the Tintagel Castle, 3500 tonne register, with the rank of third officer, and the duty of carrying troops from Southampton to the Cape. The two voyages he made in the trooper kept him busy from 14 December 1899 to 31 May 1900, every hour being filled with congenial tasks by way of duty and recreation... his delight was in the preparation of his first book in collaboration with Dr. W. McLean.... it was profusely illustrated... showing all phases of life on board a troop-ship. Before he returned to London he had secured more than 2000 subscriptions of 2s. 6d. for the book, so that its financial success was assured in advance.... On returning to England at the end of May 1900, Shackleton had five months' leave, part of which he employed with Dr. McLean in seeing O.H.M.S. through the press and in distributing the volume to subscribers, for which they were their own publishers and booksellers.' (H.R. Mill, The Life of Ernest Shackleton, London, 1922, pp.53-55).
'Two copies were particularly important to Shackleton. One, specially bound, was presented to Queen Victoria; the other was inscribed 'E. to E. July 1900. "The First Fruits".' (M. and J. Fisher, Shackleton, London, 1957, p.15).
Shackleton had first met Emily Dorman (a friend of his sister Kathleen) in the summer of 1897. 'He was twenty-three, and she six years older, a tall, dark-haired young woman with a good figure; not exactly beautiful, but definitely attractive, and with a formidable hint of motherly firmness behind a soft manner.' (R. Huntford, Shackleton, London, 1996, p.19)
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