‎RICHARDSON Moses A. ( printer - editor ) :‎
‎"Reprints of Rare Tracts and Imprints of Ancient Manuscripts, Chiefly illustrative of the history of the Northern Counties; and printed at the Press of M.A. Richardson, Newcastle. Biographical ( 2 vols. ) ; Miscellaneous ( 1 vol ). ( in all 3 vols.)."‎

‎" Newcastle, M.A. Richardson, 1847, 1848, 1849, 3 vols in-8°, uniformy bound in half leather, top edge gilt, two labels on decorated spine, upper joint of 1 volume split over 6 cm. Printed in two colours, some pages even in three colours. Printed in 100 copies only. [Volume I] Volume 1 , Biographical. Contains 6 texts . (1) Chronicle of the Family of Percy. ...(6) Scholae Novocastrensis Alumni. [Volume II] Volume 2, Biographical. Contains 7 texts. (1) An account of the Genealogy...concerning the Family of Lorraine...in the County of Northumberland......(7) An answer to the Proclamation of the Rebels of the North.... [Volume III] Miscellaneous. Contains 10 texts. (1) Certaine verie rare observations of the North Countrie....(10) Sea-coale , Char-coale and Small-coale, or a discourse between a Newcastle collier....concerning the prohibition of trade with Newcastle, mdcxli. Bound -in in the third volume is a small contemporary slip of paper with the name of Robert Leadbitter esq.Westmoreland House. This could be the first owner of these books. (see for this person ; Thomas Dibdin , a Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour...Volume I pp. 274)."‎

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