[ Richardson / The Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences ]
Moses Aaron Richardson (1793 - 1871) was an English publisher and bookseller with a strong interest in historical subjects.
The full title of this multi-volume, heavily illustrated work is The Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences, Historical Facts, Legendary and Descriptive Ballads, &c., connected with the Counties of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham; it was published over the course of 5 years, beginning in 1841. A subsequent edition of this work (8 volumes) was published in 1846 under the title The Borderer's Table Book, which is treated separately here at The Cultured Newf because it has additional Newf-related material.
There are only two Newfoundland-related anecdotes in this work, and both are taken, with acknowledgement, from earlier sources:
The story of the Newfoundland who survived a shipwreck and brought ashore the captain's pocket-book was told by a number of writers; you may find the earliest known occurrence in Thomas Bewick et al's A General History of Quadrupeds (1790) here at The Cultured Newf.
The anecdote about the salmon-fishing Newfoundland first appeared in the 2nd edition of William Yarnell's A History of British Fishes (1841); you can read that story here at The Cultured Newf.