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A Golden Year for Publishing – the Legacy of 1922
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Nowhere to Go but Everywhere | Dior Menswear and Peter Harrington, Fall 2022
Peter Harrington was honoured to work with legendary fashion house Dior for the Fall 2022 men’s collection. Artistic director Kim Jones drew inspiration from an epochal figure, the author Jack Kerouac, and his genre-defining American romance On the Road. The first...
Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England, 1634 & 1636. Peter Harrington Rare Books.
Woolf Virginia, Kew Gardens, 1919. Peter Harrington Rare Books.
Presented by Sammy Jay of Peter Harrington Rare Books. First edition, one of around 150 copies, of this key title in the Hogarth Press history. The Press was founded by the Woolfs in their drawing room in 1917 at Hogarth House with a small hand press, which could set...