A mid-Victorian Quaker family manuscript, Facts and Fancies,...

Hammer

£140

A mid-Victorian Quaker family manuscript, Facts and Fancies, compiled by Frederick Goodall Cash of Gloucester from 1863-1867 with newspaper cutting and scraps, a few annotated in ink MS, detailing reports from the American Civil War, the subsequent assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the death of Prince Albert, a MS letter of complaint about bad bacon (stench and taste equally bad), riddles, curiosities, quotes, verse and prose, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards (rubbed), compiled topsy-turvy and applied with red leather gilt lettering pieces to each cover: Facts & Fancies, 4to (27cm x 22.5cm), [1] Provenance: Frederick Goodall Cash (1829-1909), of the well-known Coventry weaving family and makers of Cash's name tapes, married Martha Bowly (1836-1901) of Gloucester in 1858 and joined his father-in-law's - Samuel Bowly (1802-1884), the slavery abolitionist and temperance advocate - cheese business (presumably Gloucester), inscribed and dated endpaper; by descent with later dated family ink MS presentation inscriptions.