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Clark, Joseph et al.
Collection of pamphlets and material relating to the Freemen of Newcastle. The Freemen of Newcastle upon Tyne [10 Pamphlets plus cuttings from Richardson’s Table Book].
Publisher: Various; Newcastle/Gateshead,
Date of Publication: 1809
Stock Code: 6068
A collection of ten bound pamphlets, many of them rare, all relating to the Newcastle Freeman. Comprising: 1. Clark, Joseph, A Friendly Address to the Free Burgesses of Newcastle, Gateshead, J Marshall, 1809, pp [2], 24; 2. The Report of the Select Committee of Burgesses of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, M Angus & Son 1811, pp xxii, 19, [1], hand-coloured folding plan of the moor; 3. The Charter and Rules of the Incorporated Company of Upholsterers, Tin plate workers and Stationers..., Newcastle upon Tyne, E. Humble, 1817, pp 44; 4. The Report of the Commissioners on the Charities of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, W. Fordyce, 1830, pp 16; 5. Ingledew, Henry, On the Legal Right of the Freeholders of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle, William Boag, 1830, pp 36; 6. Epitome of the orders of the Incorporated Company of Cordwainers, Newcastle, J Clark, 1827, pp 8; 7. Proceedings on Laying the Foundation Stone of the Cordwainers’ Hall in Nelson Street, Newcastle, Thomas H. Clark, 1838, pp 8; 8. Watson, Roger Cradock, The Corporation and the Town Moor..., Newcastle, J. M. Carr,1869, pp [4], 59, [1] bound with original printed paper wraps. 9. Bell, Thomas Henry & Galloway, John et al, The Newcastle Incorporated Company of Cordwainers, Newcastle, The Courant Office, 1877 pp 28, bound with original printed paper wraps; 10. Hamond, W, Clauses Relating to the Town Moor, Newcastle, Andrew Reid, (corrected proof) [1870]. 11. Cuttings of the various Incorporated Companies taken from Richardson’s Local Historian’s Table Book, 1841, pasted to 13 blank pages at end. Later dark green cloth, title label gilt to spine. From the library of noted Northumbrian antiquary R. W. Martin.
Cover cloth rubbed to edges with 3-inch split at upper front joint and minor wear to spine tips. Pictorial bookplate of R W Martin of Longbenton to front pastedown; inscribed contents to verso ffep and following blank. Initials incribed to ffep and inscribed numbers to front of each pamphlet; armorial cuttings pasted to blank facing 1. Item 1 soiled particularly to margins, with very minor loss top edge of title page. A little scattered soiling and foxing, ownership inscription to title page of 3, and a little marginal annotation in pencil to 9 and 10. The volume includes some exceedingly rare tracts: COPAC locates just 2 copies of pamphlets 1 and 6 at UK holdings, just single copies of pamphlets 5, 7 and 9 and no copies at all of 3 and 10. £580.00