Memoirs of the Public Life of Sir Walter Blackett, of Wallington, Baronet. STRAKER (John).

Memoirs of the Public Life of Sir Walter Blackett, of Wallington, Baronet: With a Pedigree of the Calverleys, of Calverley, in Yorkshire, and The Blacketts, of Newcastle Upon Tyne and Northumberland.

Additional title with large woodcut vignette, engraved frontispiece portrait, two plates and two woodcut coats of arms.

First Edition. 8vo. [199 x 125 x 18 mm]. vii, [i], xxxix, [i], 51 pp. Bound c.1850 by Birdsall & Son of Northampton (with ticket) in half brown calf, brown cloth sides, the spine divided into six panels by raised bands flanked with gilt fillets, lettered in the second on a green label, the others with a small sprig, plain endleaves and edges. (A little rubbed, with small abrasions to spine).
Newcastle: printed by S. Hodgson, Union-Street, 1819

A little light spotting.

Bound with: ELLIS (James). A Genealogy of the Family of Radclyffe, of Dilston, in Northumberland. Compiled by the late James Ellis, Esq., of Otterburn Castle.

Woodcut vignettes on title and p.xxiv, engraved coat of arms at the end.

First Edition. xxiv, 10 pp.

Newcastle: imprinted by George Bouchier Richardson, at the Sign of the River-God Tyne, Clayton-Street-West; Printer to the Society of Antiquaries, and to the Typographical Society, both of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 1850

And: [JOHNSON (Richard)]. A Remembrance of the Honors Due to the Life and Death of Robert Earle of Salisbury, Lord Treasurer of England &c. Imprinted at London for John Wright, and are to be Sold at his Shop Neere Christ Church Doore.

Frontispiece woodcut portrait by Bewick.

xii, 27, [1] pp.

[Newcastle: printed by S. Hodgson, Union-Street, 1818]

Edited by John Trotter Brockett, who commended Bewicks most admirable portrait. See Tattersfield, Thomas Bewick. The Complete Illustrated Work, vol.2, pp. 576-577, TB2.528, with note that 150 copies were issued in 8vo, two copies in 8vo on pink India paper, and two copies in 4to.

And: [FENWICK (John)]. Obituary of Charles Newby Wawn, Esq.

Engraved frontispiece portrait (foxed), woodcut vignette on title.

First Edition. vii, [i], 12 pp.

Newcastle: [printed by T. and J. Hodgson for] Emerson Charnley, 1840

Good copies of all four pieces in a neat Birdsall binding. With the bookplates of Charles Henry Hartshorne (1802-1865), antiquary, author, cleric, friend of Richard Heber and member of the Roxburghe Club, and John Towlerton Leather (1804-1885), civil engineering contractor and High Sheriff of Northumberland. Ink signature of Ian Macgregor.

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