[Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)]
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[Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)]
Sidney Royse LYSAGHT (d. 1941) Poems of The Unknown Way. London & New York: Printed by R. & R. Clark, Ltd. for Macmillan & Co., 1901. 8° (19 x 12.8cm.). Original red cloth, spine and upper cover blocked in gilt, top edge gilt (extremities bumped).
PROVENANCE:
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) (author's presentation inscription and poem, dated 'Nov. 7. 07.'), and thence by descent.
AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION.
The Nimrod had set sail for New Zealand on 7 August 1907. Shackleton followed her on the passenger ship India at the end of October, arriving in Melbourne at the beginning of December. Sidney Lysaght was a fellow passenger on the India. A poet and a novelist, Lysaght struck up a friendship with the explorer during the voyage which the present volume of poetry recalls. The inscription reads 'To E.H. Shackleton/Kin to those voyagers of an earlier day/Who ventured West on uncharted seas/Seeking the golden-shored Hesperides,/Sail these new farers of the unknown way./No Eldorado lures them now; yet they/Hear the same call, and in their spirit stirs/The fire that kindled those old Venturers,/The voice that none who hear can disobey./We know not whether they shall gain/The lone and silent dreamlands of the Pole:/Yet whether they shall win, or find no goal,/Honour be theirs who in the farthest main/The old flag of their country first unfurled,/And charted the last sea-way of the world./Nov. 7. 07.'
[With:] Thomas Buchanan READ. Poems. London: Delf & Trübner, 1852. Small 8° (17.2 x 10.7cm.). Wood-engraved title vignette and illustrations. (Browned.) Original green cloth, blocked in blind, titled in gilt on spine (extremities bumped.) Provenance: Ferd. J. Dreer (inscription dated 1855, with loosely inserted letter from the author to Dreer); Albert Gallatin Hetherington (presentation inscription, dated April 22nd 1913, to:); Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), and thence by descent.
[And:] Rupert BROOKE. The Collected Poems. New York: John Lane Company, 1916. Portrait frontispiece. Original red limp morocco gilt, top edge gilt. Provenance: Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) (lengthy presentation inscription by Helen W. Newell addressed to 'Dear Sir Ernest'), and thence by descent. (3)
Sidney Royse LYSAGHT (d. 1941) Poems of The Unknown Way. London & New York: Printed by R. & R. Clark, Ltd. for Macmillan & Co., 1901. 8° (19 x 12.8cm.). Original red cloth, spine and upper cover blocked in gilt, top edge gilt (extremities bumped).
PROVENANCE:
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) (author's presentation inscription and poem, dated 'Nov. 7. 07.'), and thence by descent.
AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION.
The Nimrod had set sail for New Zealand on 7 August 1907. Shackleton followed her on the passenger ship India at the end of October, arriving in Melbourne at the beginning of December. Sidney Lysaght was a fellow passenger on the India. A poet and a novelist, Lysaght struck up a friendship with the explorer during the voyage which the present volume of poetry recalls. The inscription reads 'To E.H. Shackleton/Kin to those voyagers of an earlier day/Who ventured West on uncharted seas/Seeking the golden-shored Hesperides,/Sail these new farers of the unknown way./No Eldorado lures them now; yet they/Hear the same call, and in their spirit stirs/The fire that kindled those old Venturers,/The voice that none who hear can disobey./We know not whether they shall gain/The lone and silent dreamlands of the Pole:/Yet whether they shall win, or find no goal,/Honour be theirs who in the farthest main/The old flag of their country first unfurled,/And charted the last sea-way of the world./Nov. 7. 07.'
[With:] Thomas Buchanan READ. Poems. London: Delf & Trübner, 1852. Small 8° (17.2 x 10.7cm.). Wood-engraved title vignette and illustrations. (Browned.) Original green cloth, blocked in blind, titled in gilt on spine (extremities bumped.) Provenance: Ferd. J. Dreer (inscription dated 1855, with loosely inserted letter from the author to Dreer); Albert Gallatin Hetherington (presentation inscription, dated April 22nd 1913, to:); Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), and thence by descent.
[And:] Rupert BROOKE. The Collected Poems. New York: John Lane Company, 1916. Portrait frontispiece. Original red limp morocco gilt, top edge gilt. Provenance: Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) (lengthy presentation inscription by Helen W. Newell addressed to 'Dear Sir Ernest'), and thence by descent. (3)
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