Seventy Years of Irish Life. Being Anecdotes and Reminiscences. London: Edward Arnold, 1893. Second Edition. Pp xi, 306, [16]. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Light mottling to lower boards & with section cut from half-title page; otherwise a nice bright copy.

Frontispiece portrait of the author.

With chapters on Tory Island, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Smith O’Brien, Shooting & Fishing, Anthony Trollope, etc.

William Richard Le Fanu (1816-1894) was a Dublin born civil engineer and commissioner of public works. He was a brother of the novelist Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu, of Gothic literature fame.