An Albion in the Antarctic (facsimile edition)

A$1,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

[London] : St James Park Press, 2019 (2022). Quarto (320 x 245 mm), quarter cloth over papered boards (reproducing the emblem of The Sign of the Penguin , the imprint of Aurora Australis) , title label to spine, endpapers referencing the stamped boards of Aurora Australis , pp. [64], illustrated. Limited to 92 numbered copies. The facsimile edition of James Freemantle s stunning private press publication documenting the printing of Aurora Australis, the first book printed on the Antarctic continent, printed on a table top Albion Press during Shackleton s Nimrod Expedition, 1907-1909. An Albion in the Antarctic was printed letterpress in 2019 in an edition of 41 numbered copies which quickly sold out and are highly prized by collectors. In 2022 the publisher issued this high quality facsimile edition printed offset lithography, in a limited edition of 92 copies, to attempt to satisfy demand for this title. This edition too sold out. A stunning example of contemporary private press documenting in fascinating detail the printing and publication history of one of the most significant private press books printed in the twentieth century, the Aurora Australis. The following description of the 2019 edition and this 2022 facsimile edition is supplied by the publisher: This is the full story of the making of Aurora Australis, which was the first book written, printed, illustrated and bound in Antarctica, during Sir Ernest Shackleton s Nimrod Expedition, 1907-9. Antarctica is the colde

• Binding: Hardcover

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