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1846-1909; pioneer subscription publisher, b. Myshall, Co. Carlow, emig. USA 1846. His pop. magazine, Once a Week, became Collier’s, the National Weekly. Published, with his son Robert, Dr. Eliot’s ‘five Foot Shelf of Books’, the Harvard Classics; d. New York. DIB
See also J. P[ayne] Collier, Poetical Decameron, 2 vols. (1820).