SPRING MISCELLANY Peter Harrington london Peter Harrington london We are exhibiting at these fairs: 11–14 April 2019 paris Grand Palais www.salondulivrerare.paris 24–30 April abu dhabi Abu Dhabi International Book Fair Abu D habi National Exhibition Centre www.adbookfair.com 7–9 June firsts london The ABA Rare Book Fair Battersea Evolution www.firstslondon.com 27 June–3 July masterpiece Royal Hospital, Chelsea www.masterpiecefair.com 12–14 July melbourne Melbourne Rare Book Fair Wilson Hall, University of Melbourne www.rarebookfair.com 7—9 JUNE 2019 BATTERSEA PARK Front cover illustration by Victor Reinganum from Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss VAT no. gb 701 5578 50 Jean Brodie, item 186. Peter Harrington Limited. Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, Design: Nigel Bents. Photography: Ruth Segarra. 133–137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 7JY. Registered in England and Wales No: 3609982 Peter Harrington 1969 london 2019 catalogue 152 spring miscellany all items from this catalogue are on display at dover street dover st opening hours: 10am–7pm monday–friday; 10am–6pm saturday 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 20 7591 0220 usa 011 44 20 3763 3220 www.peterharrington.co.uk usa 011 44 20 7591 0220 1 3 1 page, “J. H. Duigan from her Father, H. S. Anderson ADAMS, Richard. Watership Down. London: 2 1904” and with a manuscript note on the final page, adding the KCB (awarded 29 June 1906) to his service Rex Collings, 1972 record. This little volume was privately printed for mental process when finds that this consists in a Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and rabbit family and friends “at the request of my sons; having peculiar operation of the imagination, namely, the design to front board in gilt. With the dust jacket. Colour served for 45 years continuously in the Army in India, flow of a train of ideas through the mind, which ideas folding map. Spine gently rolled, slight rubbing to spine they thought I must have seen many sides of life, and ends and tips, inner hinges split but firm, a little rubbing to always correspond to some simple affection or emo- have something to record”. Jean Heath Duigan (1871– bottom edge of book block; a very good copy in the jacket tion (e.g. cheerfulness, sadness, awe) awakened by 1931) was his daughter. Very scarce: we have been able with minor nicks to extremities. the object. He thus makes association the sole source to trace only the copy at University of Washington. first edition, with the author’s clipped signature of aesthetic delight, and denies the existence of a pri- General Sir Horace Searle Anderson (1833–1907) pasted to the title page, “yours sincerely, Richard mary source in sensations themselves” (Encyclopaedia served with the Indian Army from 1850 to 1896, taking Adams”. Britannica, vol. 1, p. 227, “Aesthetics”). in in the Persian Campaign, the latter stages of the In- ESTC T143357; Encyclopaedia Britannica, Cambridge University £2,000 [131097] Press, 11th edition, 1911. dian Mutiny at Mohumra, the second Afghan War, the siege of Kandahar, and the third Burma War. He was 2 £1,500 [131304] severely wounded by a shell at the disaster at Maiwand in 1880. ALISON, Archibald. Essays on the Nature and 3 Not in Bruce or Ladendorf; Riddick, John F., Who Was Who in Principles of Taste. Edinburgh: Printed for J. J. G. British India, Greenwood Press, 1998; Sorsky 33. ANDERSON, H. S. Reminiscences during and G. Robinson, London; and Bell and Bradfute, Forty-Five Years’ Service in India, 1850–1895. £1,250 [131776] Edinburgh, 1790 Horsham: The Southern Publishing Company, Quarto (260 × 205 mm). Near-contemporary diced calf, The “seminal account of the birth spine lettered and tooled in gilt, covers with triple fillet and Limited, 1903 floral roll border in gilt, grey endpapers, marbled edges. Octavo. Original brown frond-grain cloth, gilt lettered on of Arab nationalism” Gathering b misbound between gathering A and B. Some front cover, pale yellow floral endpapers. With 3 sketch 4 very light rubbing and very occasional light foxing, else an maps (“Action at Mahura, 26th March 1857”, “Country excellent, attractive copy. from R. Helmund to Kandahar”, “Action of Maiwund, 27th ANTONIUS, George. The Arab Awakening. first edition of this treatise on aesthetics. “Alison, July 1880”). Binding refurbished, grain of spine smoothed, The Story of the Arab National Movement. in his well-known Essays on the Nature and Principles of extremities of spine and corners consolidated, title page toned, slight convex bowing of covers. A very good copy. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1938 Taste, proceeds by a method exactly the opposite to Octavo. Original bright green cloth, title gilt to the spine. that of Hogarth and Burke. He seeks to analyse the first and sole edition, presentation copy from the author, inscribed at the head of the title With the dust jacket. With 5 coloured maps (3 folding). Spine 2 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington 5 sunned and lettering a touch oxidized, endpapers differen- tially browned, some foxing front and back, marginal toning throughout, but very good in like price-clipped jacket, a little rubbed, tanned at the spine and with a small piece lacking from the head of the spine, no loss of text. 5 5 first edition of this “seminal account of the birth 5 of Arab nationalism” (ODNB). Copies with the dust ARCHER, Thomas. Pictures and Royal Por- jacket and in anything approaching such good condi- tion, as here, are conspicuously uncommon. traits illustrative of English and Scottish His- Freeman 800, variant a; Molnar, Thomas & Martin Kramer, Arab tory. London: Blackie & Son, 1886 Awakening and Islamic Revival, Transaction Publishers, 1996. 2 volumes, quarto. Publisher’s deluxe binding of red full mo- rocco over bevelled boards, elaborately gilt and blind tooled £750 [131556] spines and covers, all edges gilt, richly gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. With 69 engraved plates printed in sepia. Gift in- scription dated 1888 to front free endpapers, with the recipi- ent’s bookplate to front pastedowns. A fine, bright set. first edition. A handsomely produced work, pre- sented here in the publisher’s striking deluxe binding and no doubt issued by Blackie with an eye on Queen Victoria’s forthcoming Golden Jubilee in 1887. 4 £950 [131826] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 3 6 (ARCTIC; NARES EXPEDITION.) The Five Flags Hoisted at 83° 20’ 26’’ N. on May 12th, 1876. London: T. Pettitt and Co., Lithographers, 1876 Lithograph broadside (600 × 275 mm). Printed in blue, red and yellow. Creased where folded. In excellent condition. Rare and attractive lithograph broadside commemo- rating the farthest north record set by Commander (later Sir) Albert Hastings Markham on 12 May 1876, showing the five flags of the expedition: Lieuten- ant Parr’s standard, white ensign, Captain Nares’s flag, Captain Markham’s motto flag and Captain Markham’s flag. Also illustrated here are the flags of HMS Alert, Autumn Travelling, 1875; Spring Trav- elling, 1876, extended parties, auxiliary parties, and dog sledges; and HMS Discovery, Spring Travelling, 1876. In addition, lists of personnel and details of the parties’ achievements are given. In the Geographical Journal, John Edwards Caswell re- marks that, on their return to Britain, “Nares, his of- ficers and crew, were welcomed home with a round of banquets. On 1 December [1876], the ships’ officers attended a spectacular banquet at Portsmouth. Nares was absent, for he had been called to Windsor to dine with the Queen . A few days later, the City of Ports- mouth used the same hall and decorations to host a banquet for the crews . The Geographical Club turned out en masse to dine with Nares and his officers . And still the banquets continued. Nares was made Knight Commander of the Bath . An Arctic Medal was struck and given to each member of the expedi- tion . A remarkable feat of seamanship had been performed. Sledging journeys had been conducted successfully, despite outbreaks of scurvy. British sea- men had again given a superb demonstration of their valour and endurance . For a century, writers have ignored the Nares expedition. One may surmise that it was a painful memory for the Admiralty, and not tragic enough for popular writers to use in harrowing the public’s sensibilities. In any event, Great Britain did not turn her attention again to the high Canadian Arctic until 1934–35. The Nares expedition concluded an era of British Arctic exploration begun in 1818 with the first voyage of Captain John Ross”. Caswell, John Edwards, “The RGS and the British Arctic Expedition, 1975–76”, Geographical Journal, Vol. 143, No. 2 (July 1977), pp. 200–10. £2,500 [131016] 6 4 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington 7 8 9 7 Poems, of 1928 and 1930. One thousand copies were ably the Phyllis of the gift inscription, but we have AUDEN, W. H. The Orators: An English printed on 19 May. been unable to trace her. Bloomfield & Mendelson A3. Sutherland, John, Stephen Spender: A £4,500 [131087] Study. London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1932 Literary Life, Oxford University Press, 2005. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Jacket spine panel darkened, small mark at base £1,000 [130988] 9 of rear panel, some nicks and chips, old tape repair on verso at head of spine, binding lightly bumped at extremities of 8 AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. With spine. A very good copy. an introduction by Joseph Jacobs and illustra- AUSTEN, Jane.