A Tour in Connaught- Signed Copy by Caesar Otway

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Title: A Tour in Connaught- Signed Copy

Publisher: William Curry, Jun. and Company

Publication Date: 1839

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition Very good hardcover with white linen boards. Comprising sketches of Clonmacnoise, Joyce Country, and Achill. With illustrations engraved on wood. Dublin: Curry, 1839. 12mo. pp. xii, 442. Rev. Caesar Otway (1780-1842) protestant clergyman, travel writer, and antiquary was born in Tipperary and educated at T.C.D. He became a Church of Ireland chaplain, and with Joseph Henderson Singer founded the Christian Examiner and Church of Ireland Magazine in 1825 and edited it for the following six years. With George Petrie he founded the Dublin Penny Journal in 1832 and wrote under the name of `Terence O Toole , beside his more frequent pseudonym O.C. Scarce Volume signed by the author.