Report of the Trial, The King v. Thackwry, Respecting the Sulphur Wells at Low-Harrogate, with Notes etc

24pp booklet with stitched binding and printed paper covers (covers heavily worn, chapped along spine, mildly soiled and faded; two thirds of the rear cover is detached, but laid in). Small engraving, showing a view of the sulphur wells in question, bound in. Internally neat and clean barring some page toning and wear at page edges. Reports on the 1837 trial of Joseph Thackwray who, it was alleged, tried to divert the spa waters of Harrogate for his own purposes, with a collection of the affidavits made by other local people to trial . A rare survival from the time, now very hard to find. Small, slim 8vo.