Aurora Australis
( George MARSTON, illus. ) SHACKLETON, ed., Ernest H.
Illustrated with Lithographs and Etchings by George Marston. [With Commentary Volume 'Printed at the Sign of the Penguins' by Jan Piggott.]
500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Published: Folio Society, [2021]
Stock code: 50266
Price: £1,800.00
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, text in red and black, with illustrated and printed titles, and illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; beechwood boards printed on inner surface, calf back blocked and lettered in blind, hand-sewn as issued, Commentary volume in printed wrappers, sewed as issued, the whole housed in publisher's oatmeal cloth clamshell box, upper cover with leather label blocked in blind, back lettered in dark red, a fine copy.
EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 148). Published by FS to commemorate the centenary of Shackleton's death. A faithful and high quality facsimile, in text and binding, of Rudyard Kipling's copy, now housed in the library of Dulwich College. With a copy of the publisher's prospectus loosely inserted.