N Y L A E L C I S M R E ton ng M ri r a M H n r o e U d t n e o S P l All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 1 We are exhibiting at these fairs 8–9 September 2018 brooklyn Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair Brooklyn Expo Center Brooklyn, NY www.brooklynbookfair.com 4–7 October frieze masters Regent’s Park, London frieze.com/fairs/frieze-masters 14–15 October seattle Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair Seattle Center Exhibition Hall Seattle, WA www.seattlebookfair.com 3–4 November chelsea Chelsea Old Town Hall Kings Road, London www.chelseabookfair.com 16–18 November boston Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair Hynes Convention Center Boston, MA bostonbookfair.com 30 November–2 December hong kong China in Print Hong Kong Maritime Museum www.chinainprint.com Front cover image adapted from Edward Shenton’s VAT no. gb 701 5578 50 decorations for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night, item 49. 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 london catalogue 145 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 www.peterharrington.co.uk 2 edition in 1912, entitled Polycylo-epicycloidal and other Geometric Curves. 1 2 £1,750 [124669] 1 2 A subscriber’s copy of this “masterpiece of (AESOP.) JAMES, Thomas. Aesop’s Fables: ALABONE, Edwin W. Multi-Epicycloidal and descriptive travel” A New Version, Chiefly from the Original other Geometric Curves. London: John Swain 3 Sources. With more than one hundred illus- and Son, Ltd, c.1910 ANSON, George. A Voyage Round the World trations designed by John Tenniel. London: Tall octavo. Original green morocco-grain cloth, spine in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. Compiled John Murray, 1848 and front cover lettered in gilt, geometric curve design from Papers and other Materials, and pub- to front cover in gilt, floral endpapers, edges gilt. Por- Octavo (212 × 150 mm). Contemporary dark green mo- lished under his Direction, By Richard Wal- trait frontispiece, 77 coloured plates. Spine ends and tips rocco by Worsfold, raised band to spine, compartments rubbed, light foxing to first few pages, plates unaffected. ter, M.A. Chaplain of his Majesty’s Ship the lettered and richly tooled with rose motifs in gilt, dou- A very nice copy. Centurion, in that Expedition. Illustrated ble fillet border in gilt to spine with roses tooled in the corners of panel, gilt edge roll, turn-ins tooled in gilt, first edition, first impression, presen- with Forty-Two Copper-Plates. London: Printed marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With original cov- tation copy, decorated by the author with an for the Author; by John and Paul Knapton, 1748 ers bound in at rear. Illustrations in the text by Tenniel. original multi-epicycloidal black ink drawing and Quarto (254 × 198 mm). Contemporary calf skilfully Spine sunned to brown, small repair to first gathering. A inscribed, “To W. Osmond Esq, with the author’s refurbished (joints, extremities of spine and corners very good, handsomely bound copy. compliments 1911” on the first blank. This form sympathetically consolidated), decorative gilt spine, first tenniel-illustrated edition. Best- of mechanical drawing, using a series of intercon- dark red morocco label, two-line gilt border on sides known for his illustrations for Alice’s Adventures nected wheels with variously offset centres, had a enclosing blind roll tool border, red speckled edges. 42 in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass considerable vogue at the end of the 19th century. engraved plates, plans, charts and maps, all but one of (1872), Tenniel actually obtained that role as a re- Although several such works were published, in- them folding. Armorial bookplate of original subscriber sult of this work: “Much impressed by Tenniel’s George Bond (see below); later ownership inscription cluding T. S. Bazley’s Index to the Geometric Chuck of “W. Burcher, London, Nov[embe]r 1795” to facing work in Aesop’s Fables, Charles Dodgson (Lewis (London, 1875), Alabone’s is the most beautifully endpaper. Patchy rubbing to covers, scattered worming Carroll) asked the artist to illustrate his Alice presented. It was evidently a popular success since (more particularly to initial gatherings, largely confined books” (ODNB). the large number of “letters and personal visits” to margins), occasional offsetting, overall a good, wide- £500 [125176] he received compelled him to produce a second margined copy with the list of subscribers. 2 Summer Miscellany: Peter Harrington 3 first edition, subscriber’s copy, of this ed book became a best-seller, running through from it, but that Benjamin Robins completed the “masterpiece of descriptive travel” (Hill), quickly numerous editions in its full or abridged form and editorial task. “Anson’s voyage appears to have been reprinted several times, but the original quarto re- being translated into several European languages. the most popular book of maritime adventure of the mains “the most desirable” (Sabin). With the con- It is now agreed that the ostensible author, Richard eighteenth century” (Hill). temporary armorial bookplate of George Bond, Walter, took the initiative for publishing, gathering Hill 1817; Howgego I A100; NMM I 109; Sabin 1625. whose name is printed in the list of subscribers; names of subscribers and profiting handsomely £4,750 [124562] there are a number of indexing side notes in a neat early hand (a few shaved by the binder, presum- ably made when the book was still in boards), not- ing such things as “Capt: shoots ye Ringleaders” and “wherefore ye Crew deprive him of his Com- mand” (at p. 149). Anson (1697–1762) was in command of a squad- ron sent to plunder Spanish trading territories on the Pacific coast of South America during the War of Jenkins’ Ear. After an astonishing series of mis- haps and adventures, Anson returned to England in June 1744 a rich man. His voyage is remembered as “a classic tale of endurance and leadership in the face of fearful disasters, but to the British public of 1744 it was the treasure of the galleon, triumphantly paraded through the streets of London, which did something to restore national self-esteem battered by an unsuccessful war” (ODNB). The keenly-await- 3 3 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 3 4 4 “Part of the ‘triple’ crown of early 20th-century of the complete set is due to the smaller limitation dies tending a hive, 40 woodcut illustrations in the text. fine press printing” of the first volume, Inferno. In the present set Inferno Spine lightly faded, corners minimally rubbed, a little is one of 135 copies on paper from a total edition of light spotting; a very good copy. 4 149, and both Purgatorio and Paradiso are each one of first edition of Bagster’s practical manual on (ASHENDENE PRESS.) DANTE ALIGHIE- 150 paper copies from a total edition of 170. the management of bees, which enjoyed some suc- RI. [La Divina Commedia.] Lo Inferno; Lo The Ashendene Dante is justifiably considered cess, with further editions in 1838, 1852 and 1865. Purgatorio; Lo Paradiso. Chelsea: Ashendene “one of the outstanding and highly prized vol- “Bagster could not have foreseen that the Lang- Press, 1902–5 umes . in fine printing” (Aldis, p. 57), this set in stroth movable-frame hive would make his book notably fine condition. irrelevant, but his book remains one of the more 3 volumes, small quarto. Original limp vellum, green silk ties, spines lettered in gilt. Purgatorio and Paradiso in the See Harry G. Aldis, The Printed Book, second edition, publisher’s marbled slipcases. Initials in red and gilt for revised by John Carter and E. A. Crutchley (Cambridge the first canto, and in red and blue for the following can- University Press, 1941); Sian Echard, Printing the Middle tos; illustrated woodcut vignettes in the texts. With the Ages (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008). erratum slip at the rear of Purgatorio. A near-fine set, In- £20,000 [127300] ferno particularly so, the leaves of all three volumes fresh and uncockled. Inferno: covers bowed. Purgatorio: some faint marks to covers. Paradiso: one or two very trivial 5 marks to spine. Slipcases worn but firm. BAGSTER, Samuel, Jun. The Management first ashendene press edition of Dante’s Di- of Bees. With a Description of the “Ladies’ vine Comedy, exceptionally uncommon complete Safety Hive.” London: Samuel Bagster and Wil- in three volumes, “one of the Press’s most famous liam Pickering, 1834 books, revered as part of the ‘triple’ crown of early 20th-century fine press printing” (Echard, p. vii), Small octavo. Publisher’s flower patterned cloth, black the two other high spots being Morris’s Kelmscott paper spine label lettered gilt. Coloured engraved fron- Chaucer and the Doves Press Bible. The noted rarity tispiece of queen, worker, and drone bees, title page printed in red and black with a vignette illustration of la- 5 4 Summer Miscellany: Peter Harrington With the contemporary armorial bookplates of the Jansenist scholar, translator, and author Pierre-Thomas du Fossé (1634–1698). Situated at Port-Royal, du Fossé produced several theological works, and had been imprisoned in the Bastille for his Jansenist beliefs in 1666.