A Grinalda: periodico de poesias inéditas. 6 volumes, a complete run.

Porto, Na Typographia de Sebastião José Pereira, 1855-1869.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 6 volumes in 3. Large 8°, recent three-quarter green sheep over marbled boards (minor wear), spines richly gilt in five compartments, red leather lettering pieces in second and fourth compartments, gilt trim to leather of boards, marbled endleaves, green silk place markers, top edges tinted green, other edges uncut, original printed wrappers bound in. Large wood-engraved vignettes on title pages, and, beginning with the third year, at the top of the first page of each number. Fourth and fifth years printed in dark blue throughout; sixth year printed in green ink throughout. A few small repairs to wrappers. Occasional light foxing and small water stains. Overall in very good condition. 191; 191; 192; 192; 192; 191 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION, a COMPLETE RUN. Each volume, for the years 1855, 1857, 1860, 1862, 1864 and 1869, consists of 12 monthly issues, consecutively paginated. Beginning as a proponent of ultra-romantic poets, this review eventually incorporated examples of neo-classic poets, several poets of the Geraçñao de 70, such as Antero, Theophilo or Guerra Junqueiro and others who were precursors of Parnassism. The editors for the first two volumes of this poetry review, mostly were João Marques Nogueira Lima (b. 1829) and João Martins Barbosa Carneiro (1833-1857), both natives of Porto. Barbosa Carneiro died following publication of the second volume, and for the remaining volumes Nogueira Lima was the sole editor and publisher. He was also a major contributor, with a total of 64 poems; Carneiro contributed 14 poems to the first two volumes. Posthumously 3 of his poems appeared in the third volume, and 1 each in the final three volumes. Each "year" or volume consists of 12 consecutively paged monthly numbers. Toward the end of the first chapter of his masterpiece Os Maias, Eça de Queiroz notes that Pedro de Maia was a subscriber to this review.Among the most important writers whose poems are included are José Duarte Ramalho Ortigão (2), Camilo Castelo Branco (2), Francisco Joaquim Bingre (11), Júlio Diniz (8), Anthero de Quental (1), Alexandre Herculano (1), Francisco Marques de Souza Viterbo (4), Abílio Guerra Junqueiro (2), Alberto Pimentel (1), João de Deus (1), the Visconde d'Azevedo (1) and Theophilo Braga (1).*** Rafael and Santos, eds., Jornais e revistas portugueses do século XIX, 2612. Innocêncio III, 414-6. See also Historia da poesia moderna em Portugal. Carta a J. M. Nogueira Lima sobre a Grinalda por Theophilo Braga, Porto 1869; Álvaro Manuel Machado in Biblos, II, 893. Porbase locates four runs: two in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and one each in the Biblioteca Municipal do Porto and Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. Jisc repeats the same two records for British Library only.