The front cover is marked "MR. JUSTICE CURTIS,/U.S. SUPREME COURT/WITH THE RESPECTS OF/SAMUEL COLT" in gold lettering with a gold border, and the spine has "COLT/vs/MASS./ARMS CO." ins silver lettering. The title page lists "In the Circuit Court of the United States, District of Massachusetts/SAMUEL COLT/vs./THE MASS. ARMS COMPANY./REPORT/OF THE/TRIAL OF THE ABOVE-ENTITLED CAUSE, AT BOSTON, ON THE THIRTIETH DAY OF JUNE,/A.D. 1851, BEFORE HIS HONOR, LEVI WOODBURY, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE/OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNTIED STATES./By Robert M. Patterson, of Philadelphia." Below it lists the counsels for the plaintiff and defense, including historian and patent lawyer George Ticknor Curtis (1812-1894) of Boston for Colt. The man referenced on the cover was his elder brother U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809-1874), the only Whig to ever serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and one of the two dissenters in the historic Dred Scott case that heightened tensions over slavery in the lead up to the American Civil War. George Curtis was notably one of the co-counselors representing Scott in the case. One of the few other known copies is pictured in the book "Arms Collection of Samuel Colt" on page xvii. It is nearly identical except that it was presented to President Millard Fillmore. A copy in the University of Minnesota library presented to Edward N. Dickerson, the second of Colt's counselors in the trial, is digitized. Colt sent copies to other leading figures in the country.

Very fine with minor wear at the corners and a few minor tears on the pages. This is a remarkably high condition book for its age and is certainly a highly desirable piece of firearms history presented by Samuel Colt to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin R. Curtis. This book is rarer than a Samuel Colt presentation revolver!