DILLON, Rev. E. Lays of Leisure Hours.

Dublin: Philip Dixon Hardy, 1842. pp. viii, 234. Blind-stamped, grey-brown pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper ‘J. Bland / from Miss O’Gill / E.’corthy’ in pencil. A very good copy. Extremely rare.
COPAC locates the British Library and Cambridge copies only. O’Donoghue p.109.
The author was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he received B.A. in 1826 and M.A. in 1832. According to O’Donoghue, he appears also to have published ‘Lays of a Loiterer’. He was an Anglican Clergyman and Thomas Darcy M’Gee wrote about him in the ‘Boston Pilot’, 1843.

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