The Silver Lining
With Scott The Silver Lining
Smith, Elder & Co., 1916.
First edition. 8vo. Second issue with Griffith Taylor's preface present. In the publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt to spine and in cream to upper cover. Vignette of a two penguins to the upper cover in black, cream and light blue. Profusely illustrated with photographs, maps and drawings across forty-five plates, 110 illustrations in the text and a large folding map in colour to the rear. A near fine copy, in uncommonly nice condition. The cloth is clean and bright, with very little wear. Some foxing to page edges and preliminary but, but in all a most attractive copy. Bookplate of the Forres Book Club to front pastedown, listing their twelve members.
An exceptionally nice copy of the book Rosove ranks as "the scarcest of the expedition's narratives". It is especially difficult to find in nice condition
Griffith Taylor was a London-born Austalian geologist who was considered By the rest of his crew the wittiest member of the Terra Nova expedition. In The Worst Journey In The World, Cherry Garrard wrote of Taylor that "his tongue wagged, and the arguments he led were legion. The hut was a merrier place for his presence".
Rosove 324. A2.
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