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8°, original printed wrappers (blue-and-white paper label with manuscript "1399" at head of spine; short tear to lower joint at foot of spine). Title page in red and black. Half title in red. Uncut. Light toning. In fine condition. Author's warm, signed, six-line presentation inscription to Portuguese playwright Henrique Lopes de Mendonça on half-title: "A Henrique Lopes de Mendonça // - ao illustre dramaturgo - // off.e cordialmente, pe- // lo muito que lhe quer e o admi- // ra. // Conde de Monsaraz". 252 pp., (2 ll.). *** FIRST EDITION of the author's best-known work: "notável colectânea de inspiradas poesias, notáveis pela elegância da forma e do pensamento" (Grande enciclopédia XVII, 674). The first Conde de Monsaraz (1852-1913), noted poet and distinguished writer born at Reguengos de Monsaraz, published his first work in 1876 (Crepusculares) and established his reputation with the appearance of Telas históricas, 1882. A fervent monarchist, he went into voluntary exile after the Republic was proclaimed, only returning to Portugal shortly before his death.Provenance: Henrique Lopes de Mendonça (1856-1931), dramatist, novelist, historian, biographer, poet, naval officer and history teacher at the Escola Naval, also taught at the Escola de Belas Artes in Lisbon, served as president of the Academia das Ciências, and founded in 1925 of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores. He also wrote the lyrics for the Portuguese national anthem. See Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 313; Aníbal Pinto de Castro in Biblos, III, 667-9; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 390-1; and Luciana Stegagno Picchio, História do teatro português, pp.278-9, 281, 284, 315, 412-3, 415, 416, 418, 443.*** On the author, see Innocêncio XX, 249, XXII, 314 and Aditamentos p. 44. Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001), p. 925: "euforica e patriarcal"; see as well pp. 927, 932. Bell, Portuguese Literature pp. 335-36: "pleasant regional verse." See also Álvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 320-1; Fernando Guimarães in Biblos, III, 883-4; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 354-5. Porbase locates a single copy, in the Biblioteca Tomás Ribeiro-Câmara Municipal de Tondela. Not located in Jisc. NUC: DLC, MiU, CaBVaU, DCU. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 22246
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