First Edition. This copy with a one-page ALs from Scott, dated 8 December 1909, thanking Mrs. Playfair for her contribution to the expedition, loosely inserted.
2 volumes, 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, gilt title to spines and front boards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With photogravure frontispieces, 6 original sketches in photogravure by Doctor E. A. Wilson, 18 coloured plates (16 from drawings by Dr. Wilson), 260 full-page and smaller illustrations, from photographs taken by Herbert G. Ponting and other members of the expedition; panoramas and 8 folding maps. Light browning and marginal foxing as usual, a very good clean set in the publisher’s blue ribbed cloth, slightly rubbed, heads and tails of spines a little crumpled.