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Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, Christmas Card 1990, opposite, item 38 133–137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 7JY. Design: Nigel Bents; Photography Ruth Segarra Registered in England and Wales No: 3609982 Peter Harrington london catalogue 139 main catalogue 1–217, gift selection 218–300 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 Large quarto (350 × 278 mm). Recent blue crushed morocco by Bayntun (Riviere), raised bands to spine, compartments richly gilt with floral sprays, second and 1 fourth lettered in gilt, rolled floral border gilt to cov- ers within twin gilt fillets either side, beaded role gilt 1 plate 25, otherwise a few trivial spots or marks. An excel- to board-edges, broad turn-ins gilt with floral and fillet lent copy with generous margins. rolls, top edge gilt, other untrimmed, marbled endpa- ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publ.) The pers. 48 hand-coloured aquatint plates, similar vignette first edition, second issue as usual, plate 26, History of the Colleges of Winchester, to the title page. Light foxing to preface and contents “Charter House from the Playground”, with crick- leaves, otherwise a few trivial spots or marks, faint Eton, and Westminster. With the Char- eters instead of washerwomen, and plates 5 and crease across upper outer corners from half-title to sig. ter-House, the Schools of St. Paul’s, Mer- 23, “Winchester College, from the Meadow” and C2, the images never affected. An excellent copy with chant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and “Westminster School Room”, both in the pre- bright and attractive plates. the Free-School of Christ’s Hospital. Lon- ferred first state. With a copy of the very rare first first edition, possibly one of 100 large-paper issue, second state of the Charter House plate laid don: R. Ackermann, 1816 copies (similar to Abbey’s copy measuring 14 by 11 in, retaining the washerwomen, the title erased. inches) from a total print-run of 850, originally is- Large quarto (340 × 275 mm). Mid 20th-century straight- (Tooley considered the first issue, first state, with sued in 12 monthly parts; all watermarks pre-pub- grain red morocco by Bayntun, flat bands gilt to spine, ti- the washerwomen and the original title, “Charter lication (the plates 1818 and 1820, the text 1818). tle gilt to second compartment, two-line frames and fan House School . .”, to be “extraordinarily rare”; he Abbey, Scenery 192; Hardie pp. 108–9; Tooley 219; cornerpieces gilt to remaining compartments, concen- had only ever seen one copy.) Prideaux 336. tric fillets gilt to sides enclosing a broad hop and vine-leaf Abbey, Scenery 438; Hardie pp. 106 & 311; Tooley 3. roll and an inner dotted roll gilt, large cornerpieces built £2,250 [115759] up from fan and floral tools, gilt edges, broad foliate roll £3,000 [118891] gilt to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, bound brown silk page-markers. Housed in a custom red cloth slipcase. 44 3 2 aquatints after Gendall, Mackenzie, Pugin, and Westall, ADAMS, Richard. Watership Down. Il- and 4 line-engravings of costume after Uwin, all hand- ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publ.) A Pic- coloured, watermarked 1812. Joints very lightly rubbed lustrated by John Lawrence. Harmonds- in sections, a few faint, almost imperceptible scores to turesque Tour of the English Lakes . il- worth: Penguin Books & Kestrel Books, 1976 front board, small spot to margin of frontispiece, tissue lustrated with forty-eight coloured views Large octavo. Original dark green crushed morocco by guard creased, mild foxing to title page, more heavily to drawn during a two year residence among Sangorski & Sutcliffe, raised bands forming compart- binder’s blanks, occasional, very light offsetting, small ments to spine, titles direct to second and third in gilt, spray of pale mottling to plate 24, tiny fore-edge nick to the Lakes. London: R. Ackermann, 1821 2 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 3 5 fleurons to first and fifth and rabbit motifs to fourth and 2 vols. bound as 1, octavo (183 × 124 mm). Late 19th- 5 sixth in gilt, rabbit vignette to front board in gilt, edges century green half morocco, spine lettered in gilt in and turn-ins gilt, green and yellow endbands, marbled compartments, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge (ARABIAN NIGHTS.) BURTON, Rich- endpapers. In the marbled slipcase as issued. Original gilt. 18th-century ownership inscription partially erased ard F. A Plain and Literal Translation of watercolour by the artist to the first blank, colour fron- from front blank. Pencil shelf-marks and bookplate of tispiece, numerous illustrations in the text in colour and Henry S. Deming, over an ink inscription, to front free the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments . black and white, folding colour map tipped-in at rear. endpaper verso. Slight rubbing to extremities, minor Benares [London]: printed by the Kamashastra Spine very slightly faded; an excellent copy. wear to tips, spine lightly faded, occasional faint foxing. Society for Private Subscribers only, 1885–8 A very good copy. first illustrated edition, limited issue, 16 vols., octavo (244 × 150 mm). Near-contemporary green this copy with a fine original watercol- first edition, one of the first two eng- crushed half morocco by Stikeman, green marbled paper our by the illustrator, initialled by him in lish translations of the argonautica. The sides, titles and decorations gilt to spines in compart- the bottom right-hand corner of the first blank, editio princeps was published in Florence in 1496. ments, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, red silk page and with his full signature on the frontispiece This translation by E. B. Greene (d. 1788), and a marker laid in. Title pages printed in red and black. Extra- (uncalled for in the limitation). Number 183 of translation by Francis Fawkes were published in illustrated with frontispieces and 90 plates, all with cap- 250 specially bound copies. This extremely popu- the same year, prompting the Gentleman’s Magazine tioned tissue guards. Binder’s stamps to front free endpa- lar animal story was initially turned down by all to note, “It cannot rain but it pours, after a long per versos. Spines uniformly toned; an excellent set. major publishing houses. When finally issued by death of translations of this admired Egyptian, first edition, the authentic benares edi- Rex Collings in 1972, sales exceeded 100,000 in the two now appear at once” (vol. 50, p. 384). tion, issued in a limited subscription of 1,000 cop- first year and Adams was awarded both the Carn- Greene demonstrates “a lively interest in the ies. The book was not in fact published in Benares egie Medal and the Guardian Award for children’s processes of translation, an interest which is re- and the Kamashastra Society was a cover for Burton fiction. flected in the wide range of verse forms he em- and his friend Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot. Bur- ton’s celebrated translation “has become the pre- £3,750 [120651] ploys, adapting his style to suit different authors” (ODNB). This edition, although reasonably well- eminent English translation of the Middle Eastern held institutionally, is uncommon in commerce. classic. It is the keystone of Burton’s literary repu- 4 tation” (ODNB). Though this edition was not illus- Harris, The First Printed Translations into English of the Great APOLLONIUS RHODIUS. The Argo- Foreign Classics, p. 11; Lowndes, vol. II, pt. II, p. 935. trated, this set is extra-illustrated with plates com- nautic Expedition. Translated from the missioned by the publishers of the several reprints £1,250 [120913] that appeared in the succeeding decades. Greek into English verse . London: print- Casada 74; Penzer pp. 114–16. ed for Thomas Payne and Son, 1780 £12,500 [120211] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 3 7 second edition of Austen’s third novel, first published by Egerton in May 1814. By November 1814 Austen wrote to a friend reporting that all 1,250 copies of the first edition had been sold, and 6 6 that the question of a second edition had there- fore been raised. However Austen is believed to 6 1948 and illustrated solely in colour. For the 1962 have been dissatisfied with Egerton as a publisher, edition he added a number of pen-and-ink illustra- both in terms of the print quality of the first edi- ARDIZZONE, Edward. Original illustra- tions in his trademark black-and-white, reworked tion and in his abilities as a salesman (Gilson, p.