Captain Robert Falcon. Scott's Last Expedition … Arranged by Leonard Huxley with a Preface by Sir Clements Markham.

by SCOTT

£600 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

The official account of an heroic endeavour SCOTT, Captain Robert Falcon. Scott's Last Expedition … Arranged by Leonard Huxley with a Preface by Sir Clements Markham. London: Spottiswoode Co. Ltd. for Smith, Elder Co. 1913. Two volumes, 8vo. Original blue cloth, boards with blind-ruled borders, titled in gilt on the upper boards and lettered in gilt on the spines, top edges gilt, others uncut; pp. xxvi, 633, [2, advertisement]; xvi, [2], 534, titles printed in red and black, photogravure portrait frontispieces of Scott and Edward A. Wilson by Emery Walker after Harrington Mann and E.J. Wilson, 6 photogravure plates by Swan after Edward A. Wilson with printed tissue guards, 18 colour-printed plates after Wilson (17) and Ponting (1) with tissue guards, 178 plates, 2 folding and 3 double-page, after Ponting et al., 3 leaves of facsimiles, 8 folding maps bound to throw-clear, one colour-printed, explanatory slip tipped in before map at the end of vol. I, illustrations in the text; head of spine of volume two with minimal wear, a little offsetting from rear endpapers to final pages and maps; otherwise very attractive set, contemporary collector's stamps B.L. Fletcher to front fly-leaves. Second printing, called edition by the publishers, very similar to the first. Scott's Last Expedition , the official account of the expedition, comprises Scott's journal (volume I) and accounts by Cherry-Garrard, Campbell, Tayler, Evans, and Atkinson (volume II): Scott's writing "contains far more

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