The romance of polar exploration : interesting descriptions of Arctic and Antartic adventure from the earliest time to the voyage of the 'Discovery' / by G. Firth Scott … ; with twenty-four illustrations.
G. Firth Scott
Category
Books
Date
1907
Materials
Place of origin
Philadelphia
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257492
Summary
Bibliographic description
350, [2] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 8vo. Pencil price and codes on front pastedown: "1.50 / net / 4X / 1/8". Provenance: Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'Brentano's / Booksellers & stationers, / New York.' Binding: Early twentieth-century full publisher's dark blue cloth; single white fillet to form an outer border on upper board; gilt and red stamped centrepiece on upper board (within a single white fillet border): polar explorers with dogs and sledge; red and white decoration and lettering on upper board; gilt stamped musk ox and wolf, gilt lettering and red and white stamped decoration on spine.
Makers and roles
G. Firth Scott, author