Janet Ing Freeman (30 results)

Paperback. Condition: 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.

FIRST EDITION, pp.177; frontispiece; a very good copy in original printed wrappers. Remembered today for a handful of monographs and some sixty volumes of valuable local history collections 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. A fascinating & detailed study of the Ipswich chemist & postmaster whose thefts from the library of Helmingham Hall enhanced his own collection & that of Dawson Turner amongst others. Book Theft Suffolk Manuscripts SUFFOLK.…

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.…

Hardcover. Condition: 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).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

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. …

Hardback. Condition: VG-. 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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Book measures 25x18cm, 313pp. Bound in original publishers cloth, with gilt title lettering. Binding in fine condition. Dust jacket with little wear.Jacket in fine clean condition. Internally, pages clean, fine. A very good clean copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in near fine jacket. Very nice book, tight and square with bright covers and spine, clean unmarked interior. Sturdy binding. Jacket has just a hint of edge wear.

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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Two volumes. No dust jackets. Boxed.

Gr.-8°, OPb., OSu. LIII, 313 S., Ill., Kt Schutzumschlag am Rücken verblichen und teils leicht bestoßen; Buch selbst sehr gut erhalten. - Dust jacket faded on the spine and slightly bumped in places; book itself in very good condition. ISBN: 9780712358613 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1200.

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

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

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. A clean unmarked copy.

Brown cloth in dust jacket. Condition: Fine. viii,169 Pp.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A clean, tight copy. Housed in slipcase. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket. Bound of dark red cloth over boards with gold lettering on spine. Slightly shelf-cocked. Binding is tight and secure. DJ is clean and glossy with minor wear to edges. Pages are clean, crisp, and bright. Printed in B&W, 7 illustrations including frontispiece. 401 pages. Title page dated 2019. Copyright page dated 2019. Signed by authors in black ink on half-title page, just below printed title, inscribed "For Gail Gibson, with gratitude for past favours, and anticipation of future meetings," dated 25 October 2019. A very nice copy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might to match this actual book. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be necessary for priority or international shipping. Signed by Author(s).…

First edition, 8vo (220 x 140 mm), viii, 169pp., frontis., orig. printed wrappers. The dispersal of the Foley family library in October 1919 was notable for the richness of the books sold - and for the general inadequacy of the prices they fetched. Drawing on records kept by principal participants in the sale and in the four subsequent "knock-outs", the Freemans reveal the intricacies of a practice whose workings have not previously been subject to such detailed and informed scrutiny.…

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. VG+ DW. 1st Edition. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.

octavo, cloth. First Edition. First Edition. octavo, cloth. 1,532pp. Yale University Press, John Payne Collier (1789-1883), one of the most controversial figures in the history of literary scholarship, pursued a double career. A prolific and highly influential writer on the drama, poetry, and popular prose of Shakespeare's age, Collier was at the same time the promulgator of a great body of forgeries and false evidence, seriously affecting the text and biography of Shakespeare and many others. This monumental two-volume work for the first time addresses the whole of Collier's activity, systematically sorting out his genuine achievements from his impostures. Arthur and Janet Freeman reassess the scholar-forger's long life, milieu, and relations with a large circle of associates and rivals while presenting a chronological bibliography of his extensive publications, all fully annotated with regard to their creditability. The authors also survey the broader history of literary forgery in Great Britain and consider why so talented a man not only yielded to its temptations but also persisted in it throughout his life. With 31 black and white illustrations. "In their definitive account of Collier's life, works, and his forgeries and fabrications, Arthur and Janet Ing Freeman have provided a splendid work of reference."-R.A. Foakes, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. Very fine.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Royal 8vo (234 x 156 mm), pp. ix, [1 (blank)], 401 [1 (blank)]; with 7 black-and-white illustrations (including frontispiece); burgundy cloth, blocked in gold on spine, printed dust-jacket. Courtship, Slander, and Treason presents two independent but complementary studies of episodes in the career of Mary, Queen of Scots after her flight to England in 1568: her 'forbidden match' with the ranking English peer Thomas Howard, fourth Duke of Norfolk, in 1568 72, and her own trial, execution, and funeral in 1586 87. Not primarily intended as a retelling or latter-day reinterpretation of the fatal events Norfolk's execution in 1572 extinguishing the last dukedom of Queen Elizabeth's reign, and Mary's the stuff of romance, remonstrance, and furious debate over more than four centuries these essays are essentially historiographical, for the first time closely examining a range of contemporary printed and manuscript material. Some twenty-five texts are discussed in the first study; full bibliographical and contextual descriptions of the sixteen most significant are provided, incorporating corrections of traditional errors of attribution and dating, some of which have seriously distorted Marian scholarship. For the second study, more than sixty contemporary manuscript accounts of the events of 1586 87 were examined and analysed, with the aim of establishing proper family relationships amongst them and showing how later scholars have used these sources. Four textual appendices add full transcriptions of hitherto unpublished manuscript material, which may prove useful, or even essential to future Marian scholarship. Reviews:'The ground is well tilled: the stuff of centuries of "romance, remonstrance and debate". But this book approaches the whole subject from an entirely fresh angle, a historiographical study, for the first time closely examining the contemporary printed and manuscript material, and in the process overturning some assumptions of the standard reference works, such as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the ESTC. . [The] section on the Duke and Mary . includes full bibliographical and contextual descriptions of the sixteen most significant texts covering the lead up to, trial and execution of the Duke on 2 June 1576, . correct[ing] traditional errors of attribution and dating. The codicological study of Mary's trial and execution at Fotheringay, fourteen years later is equally fascinating, and is a cool exploration of the murky propaganda, recrimination, invective and practised deceit of Elizabethan pamphlet literature. Courtship, Slander and Treason is a fascinating piece of historiographical research, of use to general historians, and especially to those interested in bibliography and textual criticism.' (John Martin Robinson, The Book Collector)'An invaluable reference work for scholars and students in a range of disciplines. . Historians have long been using most of the texts under scrutiny in this book. The bibliographical and codicological expertise deployed here should help them to achieve greater accuracy in the future.' (Susan Doran, Reformation) 'Particularly in the exposition of authorship, [the authors] delineate and often refute attributions proposed by other scholars and canonized by the Revised Short Title Catalogue. . [As literary critics who] speak of texts scrutinized from different perspectives with measured judgements . [their] analysis has revealed much to this historian who has strip-mined some of these documents for information.' (Thomas M. McCoog, Catholic Historical Review)About the authors:Arthur Freeman is the author of a critical biography of the playwright Thomas Kyd, other studies of Elizabethan drama, poetry, and popular prose, short lives of Tudor and Stuart 'eccentrics, exploiters, rogues, and failures', and historical and descriptive accounts of literary forgery, as well as one pseudonymous biblio-romance, nine collections of verse, and some eighty critical and bibliographic.…

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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. brown cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 169 pp dj lightly worn on the edges Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Mint set in publishers cloth in slipcase (still shrink wrapped). John Payne Collier (1789-1883), one of the most controversial figures in the history of literary scholarship, pursued a double career. A prolific and highly influential writer on the drama, poetry, and popular prose of Shakespeare's age, Collier was at the same time the promulgator of a great body of forgeries and false evidence, seriously affecting the text and biography of Shakespeare and many others. This monumental two-volume work for the first time addresses the whole of Collier's activity, systematically sorting out his genuine achievements from his impostures. ISBN 0300096615.…

First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the authors Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman: ÒFor Lewis Reines in London, October 1991, Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing FreemanÓ. Frontispiece black & white photograph of Ruxley Lodge in 1990. Fine fresh copy in a near fine bright dust jacket. Laid in is a vintage autograph black & white postcard of Ruxley Lodge. From the rear panel: ÒThe dispersal of the Foley family library in October 1919 was notable for the richness of the books sold - and for the general inadequacy of the prices fetches.Drawing on records kept by principle participants in the sale and in the four subsequent Ôknock-outsÕ, the Freemans reveal the intricacies of a practice whose workings have been subject to such detailed and informed scrutiny.Ó.…