Reply to a Pamphlet Recently Circulated by Mr Edward Brooks, Inscribed

Inscribed by the Author Lowell, John Amory [1798-1881]. Reply to a Pamphlet Recently Circulated by Mr. Edward Brooks. Boston: Printed by Freeman and Bolles, 1848. [iv], 211 pp. Octavo (9" x 5-1/2"). Stiff printed wrappers. Light soiling to exterior, spine ends abraded, a few small tears to spine, "1421" and presentation inscription "Thomas Jackson Esq with Mr Lowell's regar[ds]" to head of front wrapper. Light toning, faint dampstaining to first (blank) leaf, a few partial cracks to text block, all leaves secure, internally clean. $75. * Only edition. "John Wright Boott, a prominent businessman in Lowell, Massachusetts, committed suicide. At the inquest, John Amory Lowell, Boott's friend and legal counsel, testified that Boott had been depressed over charges. that [he] had mismanaged [his father's] estate. Brooks took umbrage at Lowell's claim, and contended in court and in print that Boott had been insane. In the lengthy and complicated legal proceedings that followed, Lowell defended the claims of some of Boott's heirs against Brooks and his wife" (Cohen, internal citations omitted). Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 11354.…