O Anti-Cristo. Segunda edição do poema refundido e completo, e acrescentado com As Téses Selvagens.

Lisbon, Aillaud & C.ª, 1907 [as per title page; 1908 on front wrapper].. Tall 8º, original printed wrappers (head of spine defective) Title page in red and black. Uncut. In good condition overall. Internally very good to fine. Author's ink manuscript presentation inscription on half title: "Ao seu amigo e // ilustre e subtil critica // da Arte, Forjaz de // Sampaio // Hominagem do Autor." xviii, 493, (1) pp., (1 l.). *** Preferred edition of this lengthy dramatic poem, originally published in 1886, completely revised, with the addition of the Téses Selvagens, and the author's open letter to his mother (pp. [vii]-xviii).Antonio Duarte Gomes Leal (Lisbon, 1848-1921) was "um dos mais importantes poetas do nosso séc. XIX" (Biblos), and according to Vitorino Nemésio, "além do grande poeta que em muitos momentos foi, um dos mais extraordinários estilistas do verso português e o verdadeiro criador da poesia moderna em Portugal" (quoted in Dicionário cronologico de autores portugueses). Gomes Leal was briefly a notary's clerk, but became involved in literary circles early on, publishing his first poem in 1866, in the Gazeta de Portugal. His first book of poetry, Claridades do Sul, 1875, was highly praised - but throughout his career, most of his poems were published in periodicals or as separate pamphlets. (Innocêncio lists well over a hundred such pieces.) They were usually topical, political or satirical, reflecting his radical republican and anticlerical views. A Fome de Camões, 1870, was published for the third centenary of Os Lusiadas. A Traição, 1881, caused a scandal and led to Gomes Leal's brief imprisonment. Gomes Leal was one of the founders of the periodical O Espectro de Juvenal, 1872, and O Século, 1881. His work was at times ultra-romantic, Parnassian, Symbolist, and Decadent.After his mother's death in 1910, Gomes Leal converted to Catholicism and lapsed into abject, sleeping-on-park-benches poverty. The state granted him a small pension in 1916 after an appeal by Teixeira de Pascoais and other writers.Provenance: Albino Maria Pereira Forjaz de Sampaio (1884–1949) was a member of the Academia das Sciências de Lisboa. He wrote and edited a large number of books; among the most noteworthy are the 4-volume História da literatura portuguesa ilustrada, and the catalogue of his collection of Portuguese theater: Subsídios para a História do Teatro Português. Teatro de Cordel (Catálogo da Colecção do autor), published by the Academy of Sciences in 1922. His Palavras Cinicas was perhaps the greatest bestseller in twentieth-century Portugal, with 46 editions by the time of his death. A passionate bibliophile, there is a catalogue of the auction sale of his library, Catálogo da importante e valiosa biblioteca do ilustre escritor … Albino Forjaz de Sampaio … a venda em leilão … 11 de junho de 1945 na Liquidadora Fuertes … sob a direcção de Arnaldo Henriques de Oliveira. For Forjaz de Sampaio, see Maria Amélia Gomes in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 432; António Leitão in Biblos, IV, 1076-7; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 310-1. *** Innocêncio XXII, 248; on the author, see XX, 201-2; XXII, 239-255, 533-4; Aditamentos p. 34. See also Álvaro Manuel Machado in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 259-62; Fernando Guimarães in Biblos II, 1370-3; Dicionário cronologico de autores portugueses II, 311-3; Saraiva and Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001?), pp. 928-31; Dicionário de literatura (4th ed., 1994) II, 520-1.