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Hodgson (John) The Picture of Newcastle upon Tyne... including an Account of the Roman Wall, and a detailed History of the Coal Trade, folding engraved maps, plates, illustrations, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1812, manuscript notes at end entitled 'Improvements and alterations in the various publich buildings &c in Newcastle since 1788', together with lists of the 17th- and 18th century recorders, town-clerks, vicars, judges, MPs and sheriffs of Newcastle and Northumberland; bound with: Burgess (A.) The Newcastle Freeman's Pocket Companion, Gateshead, 1808; Anno decimo quarto Georgii Tertii regis. An Act for confirming to the resident Freemen.... of Newcastle, their full right and and benefit to the herbage of the Town Moor....', 19 pp., [np, nd]; Abstract of an Act... for widening, enlarging, and cleansing the streets, lanes... within... Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1786; with 2 other printed extracts relating to the making and storing of gunpowder in Newcastle, 12mo, later half calf, bookplate of Thomas Bell.