1993.25

Edward Wilson's Birds of the Antarctic

Dr Edward Adrian Wilson (artist and author), Dr Brian Roberts (editor), Blandford Press Ltd (publisher)

From the original illustrations in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge; edited by Brian Roberts. Covers the Discovery Expedition, 1901-1904 and the Terra Nova Expedition, 1910-1912. First published in 1967 by Blandford Press Ltd, London; has an illustrated dustjacket. Contains 191 pages, with more than 300 drawings and paintings by EAW (with 60 colour pages and 42 monochrome pages), and a photograph, by Herbert Ponting, of EAW standing outside the Hut, during the Terra Nova Expedition. Price 5 gns. The royalties were to be used to fund field-work in polar regions (Wilson memorial grants) and work at SPRI. Newspaper cutting is from The Daily Telegraph; magazine cutting is from an unidentified publication, but is inscribed 'SPRING 1987'.

Antarctica, Scott Polar Research Institute, London

1901 - 1904 1910 - 1912 1967 - 1967

20th century

book, newspaper cutting, magazine cutting

paper, board, paper, ink, paper, ink

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