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SIR JOHN FRANKLIN (1786-1847)
Sherard OSBORNE & George F. MCDOUGALL (editors). Facsimile of the Illustrated Arctic News, published on board H.M.S. Resolute: Captn. Horatio T. Austen. C.B. in search of the expedition under Sir John Franklin. London: Ackermann & Co., 15th March 1852. 2° (47 x 29cm.). Lithographed throughout. Title with hand-coloured vignette, numerous illustrations, some hand-coloured, one full-page and printed in colours, a second half-page and printed in colours, most after McDougall. (Some repaired tears, marginal in the main, but affecting the text of the third and fourth leaves, some generally light marginal soiling.) Original dark blue cloth gilt (neat repairs to head and foot of spine, later front free-endpaper).
RARE. The Resolute under the command of Captain Horatio Austin and the Assistance under Erasmus Ommanney were despatched to search for Sir John Franklin in February 1850. Public interest in and concern for the fate of Sir John's expedition was at its height and, as the illustration on p.13 of the present work shows, by the middle of August 1850 there were at least eight vessels in the Arctic.
The 'newspaper' was produced (in acknowledged imitation of the Illustrated London News) by Osborne and McDougal with contributions from various other generally pseudonymous sources. The text gives a first hand insight into the life of the expedition: the daily routine, eye-witness accounts of the finding of the first evidence of Franklin's Erebus and Terror expedition, the various entertainments devised to ward off the tedium of the arctic winter; all these are amply illustrated by accompanying vignettes.
The work is presented with two preliminary leaves, followed by the five 'issues' of the periodical, and finishing with two leaves of miscellaneous 'Arctic sketches'. It collates as follows: title (verso blank), preface (verso blank), text pages numbered 1-22 (recto and verso of 11 leaves), p.23 a full-page coloured illustration (verso blank), text pages numbered 25-31 (3 leaves recto and verso, 4th leaf recto only, verso blank), text pages numbered 32-40 (4 leaves recto and verso, 5th leaf recto only, verso blank), text pages numbered 41-53 (6 leaves recto and verso, 7th leaf recto only, verso blank), text pages numbered 54-57 (2 leaves recto and verso).
Sherard OSBORNE & George F. MCDOUGALL (editors). Facsimile of the Illustrated Arctic News, published on board H.M.S. Resolute: Captn. Horatio T. Austen. C.B. in search of the expedition under Sir John Franklin. London: Ackermann & Co., 15th March 1852. 2° (47 x 29cm.). Lithographed throughout. Title with hand-coloured vignette, numerous illustrations, some hand-coloured, one full-page and printed in colours, a second half-page and printed in colours, most after McDougall. (Some repaired tears, marginal in the main, but affecting the text of the third and fourth leaves, some generally light marginal soiling.) Original dark blue cloth gilt (neat repairs to head and foot of spine, later front free-endpaper).
RARE. The Resolute under the command of Captain Horatio Austin and the Assistance under Erasmus Ommanney were despatched to search for Sir John Franklin in February 1850. Public interest in and concern for the fate of Sir John's expedition was at its height and, as the illustration on p.13 of the present work shows, by the middle of August 1850 there were at least eight vessels in the Arctic.
The 'newspaper' was produced (in acknowledged imitation of the Illustrated London News) by Osborne and McDougal with contributions from various other generally pseudonymous sources. The text gives a first hand insight into the life of the expedition: the daily routine, eye-witness accounts of the finding of the first evidence of Franklin's Erebus and Terror expedition, the various entertainments devised to ward off the tedium of the arctic winter; all these are amply illustrated by accompanying vignettes.
The work is presented with two preliminary leaves, followed by the five 'issues' of the periodical, and finishing with two leaves of miscellaneous 'Arctic sketches'. It collates as follows: title (verso blank), preface (verso blank), text pages numbered 1-22 (recto and verso of 11 leaves), p.23 a full-page coloured illustration (verso blank), text pages numbered 25-31 (3 leaves recto and verso, 4th leaf recto only, verso blank), text pages numbered 32-40 (4 leaves recto and verso, 5th leaf recto only, verso blank), text pages numbered 41-53 (6 leaves recto and verso, 7th leaf recto only, verso blank), text pages numbered 54-57 (2 leaves recto and verso).