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APSLEY GEORGE BENET CHERRY-GARRARD (1886-1959), editor
The South Polar Times. Volume III: April-October 1911. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1914. 4° (276 x 207mm). Title and text printed in red and blue. Coloured plates, photographs, illustrations and sketches after Herbert Ponting, Edward Wilson and others. (Very light browning and very occasional light off-setting and staining.) Original dark blue ribbed cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, inset pictorial portrait of the Cape Evans hut with Mount Erebus in the background in centre of upper board, gilt edges (head and foot of spine slightly bumped, extremities lightly rubbed, upper hinge cracked with front free endpaper and first leaf working loose). NUMBER 27 OF 350 COPIES. Provenance: 'To Connie from A.R. Han(?) May. 1935' (inscription in black ink on front free endpaper).
The first two volumes of The South Polar Times were issued during the Scott's Discovery expedition for the amusement and recreation of the shore party during the long Antarctic winter. This third volume produced during the Terra Nova expedition follows the same format, comprising stories, anecdotes and semi-serious essays, with Cherry-Garrard as editor and Wilson once again as the principal illustrator. Each issue was bound by Bernard Day in carved venesta plywood boards and sealskin. Scott commented 'It is a very good little volume ... The contributors are anonymous, but I have succeeded in guessing the identity of the greater number'. The three published volumes reproduce in facsimile the typescripts and illustrations of the original journals compiled in the Antarctic. Rosove 291.A2.a; Spence 1094.
The South Polar Times. Volume III: April-October 1911. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1914. 4° (276 x 207mm). Title and text printed in red and blue. Coloured plates, photographs, illustrations and sketches after Herbert Ponting, Edward Wilson and others. (Very light browning and very occasional light off-setting and staining.) Original dark blue ribbed cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, inset pictorial portrait of the Cape Evans hut with Mount Erebus in the background in centre of upper board, gilt edges (head and foot of spine slightly bumped, extremities lightly rubbed, upper hinge cracked with front free endpaper and first leaf working loose). NUMBER 27 OF 350 COPIES. Provenance: 'To Connie from A.R. Han(?) May. 1935' (inscription in black ink on front free endpaper).
The first two volumes of The South Polar Times were issued during the Scott's Discovery expedition for the amusement and recreation of the shore party during the long Antarctic winter. This third volume produced during the Terra Nova expedition follows the same format, comprising stories, anecdotes and semi-serious essays, with Cherry-Garrard as editor and Wilson once again as the principal illustrator. Each issue was bound by Bernard Day in carved venesta plywood boards and sealskin. Scott commented 'It is a very good little volume ... The contributors are anonymous, but I have succeeded in guessing the identity of the greater number'. The three published volumes reproduce in facsimile the typescripts and illustrations of the original journals compiled in the Antarctic. Rosove 291.A2.a; Spence 1094.
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