Rare book shop Peter Harrington has recovered, restored and found loving homes for many romantic treasures. Each catalogue is painstakingly curated by a team of Peter Harrington rare book dealers, and the latest is no ...
two early advocates for reproductive rights
Annie Besant and Marie Stopes By Thea Hawlin In 1877 a woman stood up in a courtroom and became the first female to publicly endorse the use of birth control in the United Kingdom. The ...
Homer’s first female translator
Penelope and her Suitors (1912) by John William Waterhouse The last ten years have brought particular focus to women’s engagement with the Classics. 2017 saw Emily Wilson publish her much-lauded translation of the Odyssey, and ...
It is possible that Winston Churchill is as popular a figure today as he was at the height of his fame as the heroic leader of Britain during the Second World War. The recent film, The ...
A glance at any packet of shortbread will probably tell you that the romanticised myth of Scotland is alive and well; brooding heather covered landscapes, noble stags, swathes of tartan and claymore-toting clan chieftains still ...
A selection of books relating to this blog post can currently be found on our Curator’s Choice page. Peter Harrington is proud to be associated with an exhibition currently running in Rome, at the Palazzo ...
Nature writing, it seems, is more popular than ever. Books about getting back to the natural world, from which technology and modern urban living have estranged us, have dominated the non-fiction bestseller charts for the ...
During a speech in 1965, Martin Luther King said that “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” The recent celebration of Martin Luther King Day, coupled with the ...
When asked why he became a mountaineer, George Mallory answered that climbing represented, for him “the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward”. This selection of books on climbing takes in a broad sweep ...
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New to our shelves!
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, published in 1982: https://loom.ly/ni7VCnM
View our latest newsletter to discover our new acquisitions: https://loom.ly/CK7r2hY
A selection of astonishing page edges from our shelves!
Pictured:
- Chasovnik - Kazakh Old Believer Book of Hours
- Officium Herbdomada Sanctae Secundum Missale Et Vreviarium Romanum S. PII V. Pontif. Maximi
- The Story of a Puppet or the Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
We are delighted to announce our participation in the @Londonprintfair from 1st to 8th May. While the print fair can't be hold at the Royal Academy of Arts this year, we invite you to come to our Dover Street bookshop to view our print exhibition. https://loom.ly/Qao17oM
4A couple of days ago, we went to the Chelsea Bindery to meet the bookbinders and discuss about the day-to-day life of a modern bindery.
Here are a couple of photographs showing you the various machinery and tools used for bookbinding.
