Ao anoitecer da vida (ultimos versos) por Camillo Castello Branco. -

Lisbon, PP[lantier], 71 Travessa da Victoria 71, 1874.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, early dark green quarter morocco over marbled boards (considerrable wear), gilt spine with raised bands in five compartments(worn at head, defective at foot), marbled endleaves. Light foxing. In good condition. [iii]-xxiii, 145 pp., (1 l.). Lacks the half title. *** FIRST EDITION. Contains a long preface dated 23 December 1862. One of the subjects of these poems is "Shakspeare". Camilo [Ferreira Botelho] Castelo Branco (1825-1890, created 1.º Visconde de de Correia Botelho in 1885) was a novelist, playwright, poet and polemical writer - the most prolific author in the Portuguese language and the first to be able to live from the income of his writing. *** Santos, Revista bibliográfica camiliana 121. See Bell, Portuguese Literature, pp. 295-9, et passim; Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed.), pp. 813-32, et passim; José-Augusto França in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 112-5; Aníbal de Castro in Biblos, I, 864-79; Dicionário cronológico de autores portuguese, II, 112-8: "O nosso maior prosador do século XIX e porventura também o nosso maior ficcionista de todos os tempos, Camilo Castelo Branco é possívelmente o mais lido dos escritores portugueses …."