Peter Harrington reports 6 items missing or stolen during transit
13 August 2025
- Law Enforcement Agency (if applicable): N/A
- Case Number (if applicable): N/A
The 6 items were boxed together in 1 package for shipping and collected by a FedEx courier.
Missing Items
Pride and Prejudice. With a Preface by George Saintsbury and illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
Early 20th-century dark blue crushed morocco by Rivière, spine lettered in gilt with raised bands, elaborate decoration to compartments and framing boards with fine gilt tooling, with onlaid morocco decoration, including brown borders, light blue medallions enclosing gilt-tooled flowers with green leaves and red petals, wide gilt inner dentelles, vellum endpapers, edges gilt. With 99 mounted line illustrations on fine tissue paper, historiated initials, facsimile manuscript dedication, and vignette title page, all after Thomson. Housed in a custom blue cloth slipcase.
Identifying CharacteristicsVellum endpapers cockled, as usual, a little repair to head of joints. A near-fine copy.
| Edition | Other |
| Imprint | London |
| Publication Date | 1894 |
| Status | missing |
| Publisher | George Allen |
| Lost in Transit | Yes |
| Recovery Date | 12 September 2026 |
Essays on Medical Sociology. Revised and reprinted for private circulation.
Original dark green pebble-grain cloth, spine and front cover lettered and ruled in gilt, pale yellow endpapers.
Identifying CharacteristicsSpine slanted, ends and corners a little rubbed and bumped, contents evenly toned, lower outer corner of pp. 39-40 clipped: a near-fine copy.
| Edition | Other |
| Imprint | London |
| Publication Date | 1899 |
| Status | missing |
| Publisher | No publisher stated |
| Lost in Transit | Yes |
| Recovery Date | 12 September 2026 |
Handkerchief used by a candidate to cheat.
Silk handkerchief, filled both sides in very small black calligraphy. Housed in long card box.
Identifying CharacteristicsNeat and generally unobtrusive restoration by professional conservator, a few small holes and losses to text, fraying at edge.
| Edition | Other |
| Imprint | China |
| Publication Date | c.1850 |
| Status | missing |
| Publisher | |
| Lost in Transit | Yes |
| Recovery Date | 12 September 2026 |
Poetical Works.
Contemporary vellum over light green paper-covered boards by Cedric Chivers of Bath, with his gilt stamp to rear turn-in, spine and boards lettered in gilt, decorated with pen-and-ink and watercolour drawings featuring King Arthur and Queen Guinevere, details tooled in gilt, designs within double rule gilt frames, edges of covers and turn-ins tooled in gilt, cloudy green marbled endpapers, edges gilt.
Identifying CharacteristicsGift inscription dated 1903 to verso front free endpaper. Binding bright, spine gilt slightly faded, negligible marks, outer leaves foxed, else fresh. A near-fine copy.
| Edition | Other |
| Imprint | London |
| Publication Date | 1899 |
| Status | missing |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Co., Limited |
| Lost in Transit | Yes |
| Recovery Date | 12 September 2026 |
Chess Problems. Either to play and mate, or compel self-mate in four moves.
Original grey wrappers, front and rear cover lettered in black within floral frame, pictorial illustration of a man and woman over the board on front cover. Photographic portrait frontispiece, here loosely inserted. Diagram chess problem on title page, 100 further problems in the text, solutions and publisher’s adverts at end. Housed in a black cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery.
Identifying CharacteristicsSpine restored, small chip to rear wrapper bottom corner, general mild soiling to wrappers but presenting nicely, small damp stain to top corner affecting both wrappers and leaves but never touching text, some leaves evenly toned within: very good condition.
| Edition | First Edition |
| Imprint | Dubuque, Iowa |
| Publication Date | 1873 |
| Status | missing |
| Publisher | For sale by O. A. Brownson, Jr |
| Lost in Transit | Yes |
| Recovery Date | 12 September 2026 |
Original drawing celebrating the golfing victory of Cecilia Leitch.
Signed in ink “F. H. Townsend 1910”, captioned in ink underneath, annotated in pencil along left edge (“Mount by this as the perpendicular”). Rough pencil sketch on verso, with a crossed-out first draft of the same caption in ink and the directions in pencil “4 1/2 high FHT urgent to go on front page instead of Bert Thomas”.
Identifying CharacteristicsCard browned, edges rubbed and a little chipped: in very good condition.
| Edition | Other |
| Imprint | London |
| Publication Date | 1910 |
| Status | missing |
| Publisher | |
| Lost in Transit | Yes |
| Recovery Date | 12 September 2026 |