Established 1971

Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971 as part of Harrington Brothers, in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road. In 1997 the business moved to our present address in Kensington Church Street, where many of London's finest antique dealers can also be found.

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The Burwash Edition, complete in 28 volumes, 8vo. Limited Edition of 1010 sets of which this is No. 763, SIGNED by the author on to the limitation page. Finely bound in recent dark brown half morocco with twin, maroon and green, title labels and gilt to spines, dark brown cloth boards, top edges gilt. With author's final revisions, published posthumously. A fine set.

The Burwash Edition of The Works of Kipling. Including: The Jungle Book, Kim, Wee Willie Winkie, Plain Tales from the Hills, Just So Stories, Captain Courageous, Rewards and Fairies, Stalky and Co., Puck of Pooks Hill, Rewards and Fairies, etc.
KIPLING, Rudyard.

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1941., The Burwash Edition, complete in 28 volumes, 8vo. Limited Edition of 1010 sets of which this is No. 763, SIGNED.. more

Price: £4,500.00

FIRST EDITION OF 500 COPIES. Large octavo (250 x 190mm) pp. xv, 298, [2 ads.] Original black buckram cloth over bevelled boards, silver titles to upper and spine, plain endpapers and top edge gilt. Frontispiece and 9 further full page plates on variously coloured papers and many illustrations throughout the text. But for a little rubbing and marking to boards, a fine copy and rare thus. Both the silver titles and top edge gilt are bright and fresh and the pages are clean, without writing or other marks and free from foxing. Pictorial bookplate (Michael S. Holowatay) to front pastedown. Waite's extensive exposition of ritual and ceremonial magic is a classic in its field and contains two parts: The Literature of Ceremonial Magic and The Complete Grimoire. It was the first major collection of occult philosophy compiled since Barrett's The Magus, published nearly a hundred years previously in 1801. Waite would go on to revise this work, publishing it in 1911 under the somewhat less alarming title of Ceremonial Magic. An excellent copy of a true occult classic.

The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts. Including the Rites and Mysteries of Goetic Theurgy, Sorcery and Infernal Necromancy.
WAITE, A. E. (Arthur Edward).

London: George Redway, 1898., FIRST EDITION OF 500 COPIES. Large octavo (250 x 190mm) pp. xv, 298, [2 ads.] Original black buckram cloth over.. more

Price: £1,250.00

3 volumes, Folio. With 80 fine plates, 70 of which are hand-coloured and illuminated in gold and silver; also 27 fine hand-coloured historiated initials. Each volume with half-title, engraved title and full title. Beautifully bound in dark brown half crushed morocco with gilt titles and blind tooling to spines, marbled boards and edges. A superb set.

A Critical Inquiry into Antient [Ancient] Armour, as it Existed in Europe, but Particularly in England, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II, with a Glossary of Military Terms of the Middle Ages.
MEYRICK, Samuel Rush.

London: For Robert Jennings, 1824., 3 volumes, Folio. With 80 fine plates, 70 of which are hand-coloured and illuminated in gold and silver; also 27.. more

Price: £3,500.00

FIRST EDITION OF SMOLLETT'S TRANSLATION. 2 volumes; 4to (290 x 230mm). Bound in recent full speckled and panelled calf, red and black title labels, titled in gilt a handsome modern binding to style. Edges speckled red. Internally clean. Professional repair to margin of frontispiece Volume I, with some minor edgewear to prelims. Some isolated dampstaining to lower edge of a couple of pages of Volume I. Some very light marginal foxing. Errata leaf at end of Volume II. A clean and handsome set in an attractive binding. Illustrated with 28 fine, sharp, copper engraved plates by Ravenet, and Grignion from Hayman's designs. A lovely set of this superb production, Smollett's only illustrated quarto, and Hayman's best book according to Rothschild.

The History and Adventures of the renowned Don Quixote, Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. To which is prefixed, Some Account of the Author's Life. By T. Smollett.
[HAYMAN] [SMOLLETT, T.] CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de.

London: Printed for A. Millar, T. Osborn, &c., 1755., FIRST EDITION OF SMOLLETT'S TRANSLATION. 2 volumes; 4to (290 x 230mm). Bound in recent full speckled and panelled calf, red.. more

Price: £2,500.00

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