The Heart of the Antarctic - Shackleton

Title: The Heart of the Antarctic
Publication: Heinmann
Date: 1909
Description: A two volume, hard back, first edtion publication. 'Being the story of the British Antactic Expedition 1907-1909 by E. V. Shackleton E.V.O.
with an introduction by Hugh Robert Mill D.Sc. an account of the firts journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T. W. Edgeworth David F.R.S.'
Vol. 1 372 pages, 117 illustrations, Vol. 2, 417 pages, 3 No. folding maps, 1 No. folding photographic panoramas, 178 illustrations.
See full details here: The Heart of the Antarctic - Shackleton

Laws of Cricket by Crombie for Perrier Water - Antique Book of Cartoons

Title: Laws of Cricket Illustrated by Chas. Crombie

Publication: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. Ltd. for Perrier Water
Date: 1906
Description: Hard back book of humorous cartoons depicting the laws of cricket. 12 full colour illustrations and colour advertisements for Perrier Water. First edition.
Condition: Some wear and rubbing to cover, front cover binding separate from frontispiece. Illustrations bright and clear. Ink inscription to inside front cover. Chromolithograph cartoons.

 https://www.antique-prints.co.uk/crombie-cricket.html

Ernest Shackleton Vanity Fair print

Scarce, Ernest Shackleton Vanity Fair caricature dated 1909

see here for full details: https://www.antique-prints.co.uk/ernest-shackleton.html

£345.00 FREE UK delivery

See all our explorer prints here: https://www.antique-prints.co.uk/explorers.html

Title: 'THE NEW STATE CARRIAGE! If my State Carriage cannot be got ready, I will go in a Hackney Coach (see Morn'g Herald Apl 23) in Person send them to the People for their decision.'

Publication: by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, London
Date: 1831
Description: A political cartoon depicting the King William IV in his carriage uttering the words "The Aristocracy have too long kept the Crown and the Government in Subjection to the Manifest Injury of the People, the People shall have their Rights."
The coachman answers "Nothing less than a Knight of the Whip for this!!"
Huzzas from the crowd with comments "A Patriot King, Patriot Ministers and a Zealous People" and "Reform Bill for ever".
This is a comment on the Reform Act of 1832 aka Representation of the People Act 1832 or First Reform Act (to distinguish it from subsequent Reform Acts) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that introduced wide ranging alterations to the electoral system of England and Wales.
Condition: Copperplate etching, image good, later hand colouring, some age toning and old mount marks to margins, stain to top left corner, image unaffected.

https://www.antique-prints.co.uk/political-cartoon-8970.html