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4°, mid-twentieth-century quarter mottled sheep over marbled boards (slight wear to corners), spine gilt with raised bands in five compartments, crimson leather lettering pieces with author and short title in second and fourth compartments, date stamped in gilt at foot, marbled endleaves. Woodcut of fruit-basket vignette on title page. Woodcut and typographical headpieces. Woodcut initials. Woodcut tailpiece. Text in 2 columns. Small tissue repairs to corners of first few and last few leaves; some dampstains, and soiling; very minor marginal worming in 3 quires. Overall in good condition. Small round white on dark blue printed binder's ticket of "A Carmelita" in upper outer corner of front free endleaf verso. Rectangular ticket with perforated edges with ink manuscript notation (probably giving a shelf location) in upper outer corner of front pastedown endleaf. (10 ll.), 585 pp., (7 ll.). *** FIRST EDITION of one of the author's most important and popular works. There are many later editions, including legitimate reprints of 1724 and 1758, as well as two eighteenth-century counterfeits, with false imprints of Miguel Deslandes, 1696. According to Brito Aranha (Innocêncio, XVI, 135-6), three editions of this work were published in Lisbon in 1696: one by Miguel Manescal, with xviii, 584 pp.; and two by Miguel Deslandes, with identical collation (xx, 585, 14 pp., but differing with respect to typeface, setting, initials and vignettes). The Miguel Manescal edition appears to be a ghost, while Arouca cites three 1696 editions, all with the Miguel Deslandes imprint. Payan Martins proves from the typographical evidence that the present edition is the true first edition, and the only one actually printed in 1696 by Miguel Deslandes. Luz e calor is a guide for the faithful, starting with a series of doutrinas on the nature of the soul, the virtue of silence, and the proper way to pray, and moving on in the second part to estimulos do amor divino and an assortment of meditations and soliloquies. Of Manoel Bernardes (1644-1710) Bell writes that he "exercised a profound influence . in moulding and protecting the Portuguese language. His style is marked in an equal degree by grace and concision, intensity and restraint, smoothness and vigour . His reputation as a lord of language has survived every test. His works are not merely the deliciae of a few distant scholars but an acknowledged glory of the nation" (p. 250). Bernardes studied law and philosophy at Coimbra, then spent most of his life at the Congregação do Oratorio in Lisbon. *** See Payan Martins, Livros clandesinos e contrafacções em Portugal no século XVIII, pp. 268-75. Cruz, Tipografia portuguesa do séc. XVII: A colecção da Biblioteca Nacional, I (all published) 442 (cf. 443). Arouca B105 (cf. 104 and 106). Innocêncio V, 374-6 and XVI, 133-38. Barbosa Machado III, 194-96. Pinto de Mattos (1970) p. 72: citing a 1696 edition by Miguel Deslandes, without collation. Not in Palha, which has only the Lisbon, 1758 edition. Avila-Perez 699. Bell, Portuguese Literature pp. 249-50. See also Saraive & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed.), pp. 508-12; Zulmira Santos in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 59-60; Maria Lucília G. Pires in Biblos, I, 652-6. Not in Ticknor Catalogue. Not in Goldsmith, Short Title Catalogue of Spanish and Portuguese Books 1601-1700 in the Library of the British Museum. On the bindery, see Matias Lima, Encadernadores portugueses, pp. 20-21. Porbase locates six copies of the present edition: three in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (one described as in bad condition, cut down and wormed, another also described as in bad condition, lacking the title page and several preliminary leaves as well as the three final leaves), and three at the Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Porbase also locates two copies of Cruz 443, an eighteenth-century counterfeit, both in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (one descri. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 20437
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