LESLIE, Shane. St. Patrick’s Purgatory. A Record from History and Literature. With illustrations and maps (SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY)

London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1932. First edition. Quarto. pp. xlvii, 216. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Previous owner’s signature on front endpaper. Signed presentation copy from the author to the Irish Commissioner in London, J.V. Dulanty, dated 1937. Light wear to extremities, spine faded. A very good copy.
COPAC locates 4 copies only.
Lough Derg was internationally celebrated in the later Middle Ages as the place of St. Patrick’s Purgatory, a cave where Patrick was said to have fasted for forty days and to have had a vision of the ‘Otherworld’.

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