Dillon, Edward (unknown–1914) was a British writer on art. Details of his life are very limited in publicly available sources, and neither his year of birth nor his early years have been reliably recorded. What can be confirmed is that he wrote works on glassmaking and painting, and two of his works are held in this collection, dealing respectively with glass and porcelain. Judging from the available bibliographic information, his writing centres on decorative arts and craft techniques, with attention to materials, production processes and artistic expression, addressed to readers interested in the arts and crafts. Such subjects were fairly representative of British craft writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Owing to the limited sources, his specific career, editions of his works and later influence remain to be further examined, yet these two works suffice to show his interest in writing on glass and ceramic crafts.
