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Summer Miscellany Peter Harrington london 136 We are exhibiting at these fairs: 8–10 September 2017 brooklyn Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair Brooklyn Expo Center 79 Franklin St, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY www.brooklynbookfair.com 7–8 October pasadena Antiquarian Book, Print, Photo & Paper Fair Pasadena Center, Pasadena, CA www.bustamante-shows.com/book/index-book.asp 14–15 October seattle Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair Seattle Center Exhibition Hall www.seattlebookfair.com 3–5 November chelsea Chelsea Old Town Hall Kings Road, London SW3 www.chelseabookfair.com 10–12 November boston Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair Hynes Convention Center bostonbookfair.com 17–19 November hong kong China in Print Hong Kong Maritime Museum www.chinainprint.com VAT no. gb 701 5578 50 Front cover illustration by John Minton from Elizabeth David’s A Book of Mediterranean Food, item 68 Peter Harrington Limited. Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, Illustration above of Bullock’s Museum from John B. Papworth’s Select Views of London, item 162 133–137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 7JY. Design: Nigel Bents; Photography Ruth Segarra Registered in England and Wales No: 3609982 Peter Harrington london catalogue 136 Summer Miscellany All items from this catalogue are on exhibition at Dover Street mayfair chelsea Peter Harrington Peter Harrington 43 Dover Street 100 Fulham Road London w1s 4ff London sw3 6hs uk 020 3763 3220 uk 020 7591 0220 eu 00 44 20 3763 3220 eu 00 44 7591 0220 usa 011 44 20 3763 3220 usa 011 44 7591 0220 Dover St opening hours: 10am–7pm Monday–Friday; 10am–6pm Saturday www.peterharrington.co.uk 1 1 ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publ.) The Mi- crocosm of London; or, London in Min- iature. London: R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, [1808–10] 1 3 volumes, quarto (334 × 271 mm). Twentieth-century scarlet full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, decorative gilt spines, gilt ornamental panels on sides, broad richly of major importance. The architectural drawings ram and Hogarth, the Guildhall bombed by the gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Wood-engraved titles, were by Augustus Charles Pugin, a French refugee Luftwaffe, the Newgate of Harrison Ainsworth, engraved dedication page (with stipple-engraved head- who came to London in about 1798, ‘driven from the Carlton House of the Prince Regent and so pieces), 104 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates by Bluck, his country either by the horrors of the French forth” (Alan G. Thomas, Great Books and Book Collec- Hill, Stadler, Sutherland, or Harraden after Rowlandson Revolution or by private reasons connected with tors, 1975, p. 155). and Pugin. Armorial bookplates of Richard Taylor. A handful of plates with professional repairs to margins a duel’ . His lasting fame rests on his consum- This is a splendidly bound copy, the plates – with (virtually imperceptible), occasional very light offsetting mate ability as an architectural draughtsman. By the preferred pre-publication watermarks – exhib- from letterpress to plate. An excellent set with all pre- a stroke of genius Ackermann engaged Thomas iting a depth and richness of colouring. The Micro- liminary leaves as called-for by Tooley. Rowlandson to add human figures to the draw- cosm offers an incomparable panorama of Regency first edition, with the text in the rare ings that Pugin made for The Microcosm, so that the London both high and low, from sedate drawing first state, with the errata entirely un- stately, accurate and dignified qualities of that art- rooms to the brawling and boozing street life of corrected, and the watermarks all pre- ist are enlivened by the vitality and charm of Re- the metropolis, captured in matchless hand-col- publication, as noted by Abbey – the text 1806 gency life as depicted by one of the most vigorous oured aquatint by the inspired pairing of Pugin and 1807; plates 1806, 1807 and 1808 (largely the draughtsmen of all time. To turn the leaves of The and Rowlandson. latter). With the Contents leaves in first state and Microcosm is to take a walk though London at a sin- Abbey, Scenery, 212 “a colour-plate book of great impor- 11 of the 15 “key plates” in first state, as outlined gularly fortunate moment, observing, as we never tance”); Adams, London Illustrated, 99; Prideaux p. 121; by Tooley. Tooley remarks of the first state: “of the can in real life, the scenes of many celebrated in- Tooley 7 (“one of the great colour-plate books, and a sixty or seventy copies I have examined . I have cidents in English literature and history: the India carefully selected copy should form the corner stone of seen four copies.” House of Charles Lamb, the King’s Bench Prison any collection of books on this subject”). of Dickens, the Foundling Hospital of Captain Co- “Ackermann’s The Microcosm of London . is a book £6,500 [119667] 2 Summer miscellany: Peter Harrington 2 2 (ALDIN, Cecil.) SEWELL, Anna. Black Beauty. The autobiography of a horse. 3 Illustrated by eighteen plates in colour, specially drawn for this edition by Cecil 4 volumes in one, quarto in half-sheets (265 × 204 mm). graphical steel-engravings that his more promi- Contemporary dark green calf, red morocco label, titled nent and lasting reputation rests. This work, Aldin. London: Jarrolds Publishers Limited, “Allom’s China” in gilt on front board, narrow low bands [1912] initially undertaken to support himself as a stu- with dotted roll, compartments with stylised floral loz- dent, became his principal occupation between enges, scrolled foliate corner-pieces, wide panelling in Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark gilt and blind to both boards, floral edge-roll, scrolled 1828 and 1845, and during these years he made green morocco, gilt titles and decoration to spine, raised foliate roll to turn-ins, yellow surface-paper endpapers, extensive sketching tours in England, Scotland, bands, single rule to boards, pictorial onlay of Black gilt edges. 4 steel-engraved vignette title-pages and 124 France, Belgium, and Turkey, mainly for the pub- Beauty to front, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, floral endpa- similar plates after Thomas Allom, 4 of them bound as lisher H. Fisher & Son” (ibid.) He in fact never pers, gilt edges. With colour illustrations. A fine copy. section frontispieces and tissue-guarded. A little rubbed visited China and based his illustrations on the first aldin edition. and with some soft score marks to the boards, neatly re- work of other artists, though in 1846 he presented £2,750 [118532] backed with the original spine laid down, label slightly a copy of China and of his work on France to King chipped, plates lightly foxed, as usual, text block lightly Louis-Philippe, who expressed himself “highly browned and occasionally spotted, but overall a very . 3 good, clean and highly presentable copy. gratified with both” (ibid ) According to Hunni- sett, “Allom’s drawings are full of little touches (ALLOM, Thomas, illus.) WRIGHT, first edition of “the best-known 19th-century which redeem his landscapes from formality” George Newenham. China, in a series work” on China (ODNB). Published the year af- (Steel-Engraved Book Illustration in England, p. 109). ter the First Opium War ended, Allom’s China is The author of the text, G. N. Wright (1794/5–1877) of views, displaying the scenery, archi- concerned mainly with areas of British interest in tecture, and social habits, of that an- was a Church of England clergyman who wrote southern China, including Hong Kong, Macao, the text for a number of topographical works, cient empire. Drawn, from original and Canton, and Hunan, though there are also many most of them vehicles for artists’ engravings. authentic sketches. With historical and attractive views of Peking. Allom (1804–1872) £3,000 [117803] descriptive notices. London: Fisher, Son, & originally trained as an architectural draughts- man at the Royal Academy Schools, but “it is Co., [1843] upon about 1500 designs for albums of topo- All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 3 5 (ANGLING.) TAVERNER, Eric. Salmon Fishing. The Lonsdale Library Volume X. With contributions by G. M. L. La Branche, Eric Parker, W. J. M. Menzies, J. A. Rennie, A. H. E. Wood, Wyndham Forbes, Thomas Rook & Alban Bacon. With three hundred and seven illustra- tions. London: Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd, 1931 Tall octavo. Original dark blue morocco, titles to decora- tive gilt spine, gilt arms of the Lonsdale Library on front cover, gilt crowned monogram at corners, blue marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 7 hand-tied fishing flies housed in a window mount to rear pastedown, as issued, with captioned tissue-guard. Col- our frontispiece and 66 black and white plates tipped-in, 2 folding maps printed in blue tipped-in at rear, with black and white illustrations to text. Spine lightly faded, rear board a little bowed, very slight rubbing to extremi- ties, small mark to fore edge, an excellent copy. first and signed limited edition, number 62 of 375 copies signed by the author, with a collec- tion of fishing ties at the rear, as issued. A superbly produced volume from the authoritative Lonsdale Library series. £2,000 [118735] 6 ARENDT, Hannah. Rahel Varnhagen. 4 The Life of a Jewess. London: published for the Leo Baeck Institute of Jews from Germany by 4 others untrimmed, blue marbled endpapers. With 30 the East and West Library, 1957 hand-tied fishing flies housed in a window mount to rear Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in (ANGLING.) TAVERNER, Eric. Trout pastedown, as issued, with captioned tissue-guard. Se- gilt. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece. Spine pia frontispiece and 49 sepia plates tipped-in, with black Fishing From All Angles.