O livro de Cesário Verde, 1873-1886.
by VERDE, [José Joaquim] Cesário
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Lisbon, Typographia Elzeviriana, 1887.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, mid-twentieth-century tan quarter sheep over decorated boards, original printed wrappers bound in, spine gilt. Binder's ticket of Ilidio António, Rua da Vinha, 13-A, 1200 Lisboa, in upper outer corner of verso of front free endleaf. Lithograph frontispiece portrait of the author signed "Columbano". Wrappers mounted and repaired (as is often the case, due to the fragile nature of the wrappers). A bit shorter than average (18.1 cm.), but still with ample margins. Internally clean and crisp. Overall in good to very good condition. Nº 160 of 200 copies, distributed to Guilherme Godinho. xix, (1 blank), 103, (1 blank, 4) pp., portrait. *** FIRST EDITON, limited to only 200 copies (not for sale), of one of the two or three most important books of Portuguese poetry of the second half of the nineteenth century. Cesário Verde (1855–1886), poet of the second generation of Portuguese realists, was poorly understood in his own time, but greatly influenced the Portuguese modernists, and continues to be highly esteemed today. The work was published posthumously, edited, with a dedication, preface and notes by the poet's close friend, the critic and essayist António da Silva Pinto. On the front wrapper is stated "Publicado por Silva Pinto". The fine lithograph portrait is by Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro (1857–1929). On this "Grande e original pintor" see Pamplona, Dicionário de pintores e escultores portugueses (2nd ed.), II, 111–22; also Grande enciclopedia VII, 194–5.*** Innocêncio XXII, 308. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Cesário Verde, 1855–1886: catálogo da exposição comemorativa do primeiro centenário da sua morte 5. Almeida Marques 2315. Serpa 1288. See Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 491-3; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 379-86; Saraiva and Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (16th ed.), pp. 966-9; 973, 975-6, 1007-9 and throughout; and Grande enciclopédia XXXIV, 650-2. On António [José da] Silva Pinto, see Machado, op. cit., pp. 382-3; Saraiva and Lopes, op. cit., pp. 816, 845-6, 946, and 966; Ernesto Rodrigues in Biblos, IV, 181-3; and Grande enciclopédia XXVIII, 882. Porbase locates a single copy, in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (lacking 2 preliminary leaves). Jisc repeats British Library only. NUC: DCU-IA
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- Title
- O livro de Cesário Verde, 1873-1886.
- Author
- VERDE, [José Joaquim] Cesário
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lisbon, Typographia Elzeviriana, 1887.
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- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Portuguese poetry, Silva Pinto, poems,
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