Peter Harrington

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Since its establishment in 1969, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. One of the leading rare book dealers in the world and the largest antiquarian book dealer in Europe, Peter Harrington has, for over half a century, dealt with a stock of thousands of fine books from rare seventeenth-century Shakespeare folios to highly sought-after contemporary classics such as signed and inscribed first editions of the Harry Potter series. Peter Harrington operates two stores in London - a flagship double-fronted store in Chelsea with more than 20,000 volumes and 6,000 works on paper displayed over four floors, and a store on Dover Street in the West End of London which offers a carefully curated selection of its best stock in a gallery-style environment.

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Highlights

SMYTH, Dorothy Carleton (callig.); ARNOLD, Matthew. A manuscript copy of The Forsaken Merman. 1897.
A unique calligraphic manuscript copy of Arnold's poem "The Forsaken Merman" by the renowned Scottish artist Dorothy Carleton Smyth (1880-1933), a beautiful example of her juvenile work, each of the exquisitely rendered illustrations signed with her "Dodo" emblem. This copy was bound at the Mayfield Binderies, Heaton Moor, located just outside of Stockport, Greater Manchester.
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WOMEN'S FREEDOM LEAGUE. Birthday Book. Glasgow: [printed by Gilmour & Lawrence Printers for] Women's Freedom League Suffrage Centre, [c.1910]
An uncommon women's suffrage birthday book, published to fundraise for the Scottish Council of the Women's Freedom League, compiled by Eunice Murray, future president of the WFL in Scotland and the first Scotswoman to stand for parliament. It comprises contributions from a number of significant Scottish suffragettes including Helen Fraser, Alexia Jack, and Anna Munro.
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PARKINSON, Sydney. A Journal of the Voyage to the South Seas. London: Printed for Charles Dilly and James Phillips, 1784.
The scarce and beautifully hand-coloured issue of the expanded second edition, Du Rietz noting that it was "apparently issued in less than 400 copies". The first of 1773 was not issued in a coloured version, nor did it include the double-hemisphere map showing the routes of Cook's three voyages. We trace only seven copies of this coloured issue in commerce in the last 40 years.
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GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS - SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe; HOUSMAN, Laurence (illus.). The Sensitive Plant. London: Printed for the Guild of Women Binders, 1899
Limited edition, number 22 of 50 copies printed on japon for the Guild of Women Binders and finely bound in their workshop. The bookseller Frank Karslake established the bindery in 1898 as "a way of publicising and promoting the sale of books bound by women" (Tidcombe, p. 27).
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QING CHINA. Manuscript recording a voyage to China and impressions of its major cities. [At sea & China: 1842-48]
An American second mate's eyewitness account, embellished with his illustrations, of China in the wake of the First Opium War. Venturing east on a Jardine, Matheson specie and opium runner, he becomes an old China hand and an astute observer, writing of early colonial Hong Kong and Shanghai, trade arrangements, and the sights and sounds of the coast.
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WARD, Mary, & Jane Mahon. Entomology in Sport, and Entomology in Earnest. London: Paul Jerrard & Son, [1859]
First edition of this beautifully produced example of Victorian science popularization, designed to inspire young readers' interest in natural history. The first part - "in Sport" - comprises a light-hearted poem studded with charming hand-coloured engraved vignettes and historiated initials; the second - "in Earnest" - provides a more serious pedagogic dialogue on the subject.
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