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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Fourth Edition. 4to. Bound in recent full panelled calf with red title label. Very handsome. Internally uniformally toned throughout, with neat marginal notes in what appears to be some sort of shorthand. Perhaps a little tired internally but nevertheless a respectable and durable copy. Marginal wear to frontispiece and prelims. The penultimate lifetime edition with additions and revisions by Locke, a new chapter on the association of ideas and a chapter on Enthusiasm appear here for the first time. Often regarded as the birthplace of experimental psychology, this is an important and influential work in an attractive modern binding.

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding.
LOCKE, John.

London; Awnsham and John Churchil at The Black Swan. 1700, Fourth Edition. 4to. Bound in recent full panelled calf with red title label. Very handsome. Internally uniformally toned throughout, with.. more

Price: £1,500.00

30 volumes; 8vo. Bound in recent maroon half morocco with gilt titles and gilt raised bands to spines, matching cloth boards, top edges gilt. Clear type. A superb set in a beautiful condition.

The Works of Alexandre Dumas. Including: The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Queen's Necklace, &c. Illustrated with Drawings on Wood by eminent French and American Artists.
DUMAS, Alexandre.

New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1911., 30 volumes; 8vo. Bound in recent maroon half morocco with gilt titles and gilt raised bands to spines, matching cloth.. more

Price: £3,750.00

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

Complete in 7 volumes, superbly bound in recent full black oasis with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt to spines, gilt rule to boards, top edges gilt, marbled end papers. With frontispieces, black and white and coloured plates. The complete set of the posthumous Memorial Edition, edited and with introductions by Isabel Burton.

The Memorial Edition of the Works of. Containing: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah; A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome; Vikram and the Vampire; First Footsteps in Africa.
BURTON, Captain Sir Richard F.

London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893-94., Complete in 7 volumes, superbly bound in recent full black oasis with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt to spines,.. more

Price: £2,750.00

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