postmaster ipswich william stevenson fitch de freeman (14 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. The Book Collector, 1997. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, 177pp, illust. A good copy. /0.5uk . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed condition grading).

Hardback. Etat : VG-. Etat de la jaquette : VG DW. 1st Edition. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Covers are a bit damp marked at top and bottom edges. Very clean tight text pages.Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. In loose polythene protector.

First Edition, 177pp., frontis., illustrs., orig. printed wrappers. Fitch is today remembered for a handful of monographs and his valuable local history collections, some sixty volumes of which remain in the Suffolk Record office. Fitch was also a persistent and unrepentant thief of books, broadsides and manuscripts who betrayed scholarly access and personal trust, enriching both his own shelves and those of other collectors at the expense of unwary custodians.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Fine copy in dustwrapper. "Among nineteenth-century rogue antiquaries, William Stevenson Fitch (1792-1859) casts a long shadow. A lifelong and passionate connoisseur of Suffolciana, Fitch is today remembered for a handful of monographs and his valuable local history collections, some sixty volumes of which remain in the Suffolk Record Office. In this new study his darker side is for the first time addressed: Fitch was also a persistent and unrepentant thief of books, broadsides and manuscripts, who betrayed scholarly access and personal trust, enriching both his own shelves and those of other collectors at the expense of unwary custodians" (dustwrapper blurb).

1997, 177pp. Illustrated. Hardcover, with dust jacket. In very good condition.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Clean, unmarked book, almost as new. Jacket a little worn to edges and with light scratches to front, now in protective film.

Cloth, 8vo, 177 pp. From the blurb: "Among nineteenth century rogue antiquaries, William Stevenson Fitch (1792-1859) casts a long shadow.Fitch was . a persistent and unrepentant thief of broadsides and manuscripts, who betrayed scholarly access and personal trust, enriching both his own shelves and those of other collectors at the expense of unwary custodians. Although suspected even in his own time by a few shrewd observers the extent of Fitch's depredations has never before been appreciated. Drawing on a wide-range of archival sources, The Postmaster of Ipswich leads us from Ham House and Helmingham Hall, the country seats of the Tollemache family, to the Corporation chest of Ipswich itself - all of them home to unique literary and historical materials. Into Fitch's net came the manuscripts of John Bale's morality play Kynge Johan and George Peele's poetical Anglorum Feriae; books printed by Caxton and Wynkyn de Wörde; the hoard of sixteenth-century broadsides now known as the Britwell and Huth ballads; and hundreds of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century letters and state documents abstracted from the Duke of Lauderdale's Ham House papers." Contents: Introduction; I Ham House and Helmingham Hall: The Tollemache Legacy; II Scottish Letters and English Books; III Useless Lumber, Curious Papers, Black-Letter Ballads; IV The Pursuit of the Postmastership; V The Ipswich Muniments and Bale's Kynge Johan; VI Discoveries and Traffics; VII Recognition. Appendix I: The 1824 Sale of Lauderdale Papers; Appendix II: Fitch's Spoils at Auction, 1855-73.Indexed. Near Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper.

First edition, 177pp., frontis., illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. Fitch is today remembered for a handful of monographs and his valuable local history collections, some sixty volumes of which remain in the Suffolk Record office. Fitch was also a persistent and unrepentant thief of books, broadsides and manuscripts who betrayed scholarly access and personal trust, enriching both his own shelves and those of other collectors at the expense of unwary custodians.

First Edition, 177pp., frontis., illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. Fitch is today remembered for a handful of monographs and his valuable local history collections, some sixty volumes of which remain in the Suffolk Record office. Fitch was also a persistent and unrepentant thief of books, broadsides and manuscripts who betrayed scholarly access and personal trust, enriching both his own shelves and those of other collectors at the expense of unwary custodians.

Octavo hardcover with beautiful blue cloth boards (nr fine) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

First edition in very good condition. 8.75" x 5.5" . pp.177 . Printed card covers with white titles to spine. Front cover with blue and black lettering on white background, hardly any signs of wear. Illustrated with a portrait frontis of Fitch, plus four other full-page plates. Very clean throughout, no creases, marks or inscriptions. VG.

Cloth, 8vo, 177 pp. From the blurb: "Among nineteenth century rogue antiquaries, William Stevenson Fitch (1792-1859) casts a long shadow.Fitch was . a persistent and unrepentant thief of broadsides and manuscripts, who betrayed scholarly access and personal trust, enriching both his own shelves and those of other collectors at the expense of unwary custodians. Although suspected even in his own time by a few shrewd observers the extent of Fitch's depredations has never before been appreciated. Drawing on a wide-range of archival sources, The Postmaster of Ipswich leads us from Ham House and Helmingham Hall, the country seats of the Tollemache family, to the Corporation chest of Ipswich itself - all of them home to unique literary and historical materials. Into Fitch's net came the manuscripts of John Bale's morality play Kynge Johan and George Peele's poetical Anglorum Feriae; books printed by Caxton and Wynkyn de Wörde; the hoard of sixteenth-century broadsides now known as the Britwell and Huth ballads; and hundreds of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century letters and state documents abstracted from the Duke of Lauderdale's Ham House papers." Contents: Introduction; I Ham House and Helmingham Hall: The Tollemache Legacy; II Scottish Letters and English Books; III Useless Lumber, Curious Papers, Black-Letter Ballads; IV The Pursuit of the Postmastership; V The Ipswich Muniments and Bale's Kynge Johan; VI Discoveries and Traffics; VII Recognition. Appendix I: The 1824 Sale of Lauderdale Papers; Appendix II: Fitch's Spoils at Auction, 1855-73.Indexed. Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper.

Paperback. Etat : Fine. First Edition. First edition. 8vo; 177 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in original wrappers. Paperback. A study of Fitch's careers as antiquarian and thief.