Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends. During The Famine in Ireland, in 1846 and 1847. . Dublin: Hodges, 1852. First Edition. Pp xxiii, 478. Re-cased retaining original cloth, title in gilt to spine, boards decorated in blind, new endpapers. Upper margin of title page cut out. A very good copy.

Presentation copy from the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends.

It is difficult to read unmoved some of the detailed testimony contained in this volume of the reports of the envoys sent out by the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends (Quakers), who found out for themselves what was really going on during the Famine in remote country areas.