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First edition. iv, [5], 6-34pp. Later morocco-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Original publisher's plain green wrappers bound in. Lightly rubbed. Bookseller's ticket of William George's Sons of Bristol and recent bookplate of F. W. Morris to FEP, amorial bookplate of Francis Frederick Fox to front blank fly-leaf, scattered foxing. The second known copy of the sole edition of a record of the proceedings of a trial relating to the rights of inheritance to the fortune of Florence Smyth of Ashton Court, Somerset. Smyth died in 1852, 'at the age of about 83 years', leaving property valued at £30,300, the majority of which to be left to Charles Hardcastle Abbott, the executor. This was contested by Mrs. Upton, mother to Smyth's three grandchildren, to whom little provision was made. The court found in favour of Abbott, concluding that Upton's allegations of nefarious conduct employed to extract an inheritance from Smyth were unfounded. OCLC records a single copy (Yale). Size: 8vo.…