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[Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)]
Hugh Robert MILL. The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton. London: Morrison & Gibb Ltd. for William Heinemann Ltd., 1923. 8° (21.7 x 14.2cm.). Title in blue and black. Portrait frontispiece, 18 plates only (of 19, lacking plate facing p.186). ('List of Illustrations' leaf detached.) Original blue cloth, spine and upper cover blocked in gilt. Heinemann device in blind on lower cover (scuffed, lower cover lightly affected by damp, stitching loose).
PROVENANCE:
Miss Aimée Vibert Shackleton (presentation inscription from the author 'Miss A.V. Shackleton/with thanks for/much valued help/Hugh Robert Mill/April 1923', with the addition of the signature of Lady Shackleton on inserted slip laid down on front free endpaper), and thence by descent.
FINE ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, signed by the author and Shackleton's widow and presented to his sister. Aimée has added marginal amendments to three leaves (see pp. 8, 18 and 269). Spence 795.
[with:] Hugh Robert MILL. Series of proof plates to The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton. [London: no date but 1923]. 18 proof plates, each with manuscript title beneath by Mill. Unbound within paper wrapper titled in ink on upper cover 'Proofs/of Pictures/in the "Life"'. Provenance: Shackleton family, and thence by descent.
A near complete set of proof plates to the first full authorised biography of Shackleton. The published work includes 20 plates and 4 maps printed as illustrations. The present selection includes 15 proofs printed on 'art paper' for the seperately printed plates numbered in manuscript 4-12 and 14-19, and three of the four maps printed on various paper stocks. Also included is an additional portrait of Shackleton, a larger version of which was printed as the 13th plate. Mill, a long-time friend and admirer of Shackleton, had apparently unlimited access to his papers and was able to speak to many of the participants in the events described with the result that he produced a work that remains a valuable source of information on the life and work of the explorer. Cf. Conrad p.144: cf. Spence 795.
Hugh Robert MILL. The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton. London: Morrison & Gibb Ltd. for William Heinemann Ltd., 1923. 8° (21.7 x 14.2cm.). Title in blue and black. Portrait frontispiece, 18 plates only (of 19, lacking plate facing p.186). ('List of Illustrations' leaf detached.) Original blue cloth, spine and upper cover blocked in gilt. Heinemann device in blind on lower cover (scuffed, lower cover lightly affected by damp, stitching loose).
PROVENANCE:
Miss Aimée Vibert Shackleton (presentation inscription from the author 'Miss A.V. Shackleton/with thanks for/much valued help/Hugh Robert Mill/April 1923', with the addition of the signature of Lady Shackleton on inserted slip laid down on front free endpaper), and thence by descent.
FINE ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, signed by the author and Shackleton's widow and presented to his sister. Aimée has added marginal amendments to three leaves (see pp. 8, 18 and 269). Spence 795.
[with:] Hugh Robert MILL. Series of proof plates to The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton. [London: no date but 1923]. 18 proof plates, each with manuscript title beneath by Mill. Unbound within paper wrapper titled in ink on upper cover 'Proofs/of Pictures/in the "Life"'. Provenance: Shackleton family, and thence by descent.
A near complete set of proof plates to the first full authorised biography of Shackleton. The published work includes 20 plates and 4 maps printed as illustrations. The present selection includes 15 proofs printed on 'art paper' for the seperately printed plates numbered in manuscript 4-12 and 14-19, and three of the four maps printed on various paper stocks. Also included is an additional portrait of Shackleton, a larger version of which was printed as the 13th plate. Mill, a long-time friend and admirer of Shackleton, had apparently unlimited access to his papers and was able to speak to many of the participants in the events described with the result that he produced a work that remains a valuable source of information on the life and work of the explorer. Cf. Conrad p.144: cf. Spence 795.
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