BRYCE V. RUSDEN: In the High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division, before Baron Huddleston and a special jury Bryce, John; Rusden G. W. Social Sciences,Travel, Topography, Exploration

. . . Transcript of the Shorthand Notes of Messrs. W. & C. Cock. Pp. [ii](errata)+638+ [2], folding map, index; thick demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards ruled in blind, slightly scuffed, edges lightly worn, bottom fore-corner of lower board bruised; text block faintly browned, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed, occasional slight soiling; printed by Waterlow Bros. & Layton, London, 1886. First edition. *The Ingleton copy, with two bookplates (Geoffrey Chapman Ingleton and G. & N. Ingleton) on the upper pastedown, and two green stamped Ingleton Catalogue numbers on lower pastedown. Later from the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his bookplate on the upper free endpaper. John Bryce (1833-1913) was a New Zealand politician who served as Minister of Native Affairs from 1879 to 1884. He successfully sued historian and civil servant George William Rusden (1819-1903) for libel following Rusden's account in his History of New Zealand of Bryce's part in the Maori Wars.