Author: POLL BOOK.
Title: The Contest. Being an Account of the Matter in Dispute between the Magistrates and Burgesses, and an Examination of the Merit and Conduct of the Candidates in the present Election. For Newcastle upon Tyne. Sold by the Booksellers in Newcastle, and the neighbouring Towns. 1774. First Edition, extra-illustrated with the inclusion of 2 later portraits of Sir Walter Blackett and Sir M. W. Ridley, [2], 40 pp. Bound with:- BURGESSES POLL. The Burgesses Poll at the Late Election of Members for Newcastle upon Tyne. Containing the Conditions agreed on by the Candidates for regulating the Poll. State of the Poll each day. - The number each Candidate Polled every day. - The whole number of Persons each day, their Names, Companies, Places of Residence, how they voted, the day each polled on, and number on the poll ranged alphabetically. - Copied from the Original Books taken on the spot, pursuant to the Direction of the Hon. Constantine John Phipps, And Thomas Delaval, Esq. To which is added, A summary View of the Disputes which arose, and Arguments used by the Candidates, Counsellors Lee, Fawcett, and Wilson, in defence of their proceedings upon the Hustings, &c.....
Description: Newcastle: Printed for the Editor; and Sold by Mr. Slack, and Mr. Charnley, Booksellers in Newcastle, [1775]. Second Edition, corrected, errata on final leaf, 24, [2], 55, [1] pp., modern green morocco-backed, marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, maroon labels, a fine copy.

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