Fitch William Stevenson Freeman Janet Ing (1 results)

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.…