Homens do mar. Drama maritimo em um prologo e tres actos original.

Rio de Janeiro, A.A. da Cruz Coutinho [title page verso has imprint Porto: Typographia do Jornal do Porto, 1864].. FIRST EDITION. Large 8°, original gray printed wrappers (spine largely defective, front wrapper and half title detached). Mild foxing. Overall in good condition. 173 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST EDITION. Augusto Cesar de Lacerda was an important Portuguese dramatist and well known actor who wrote in the Romantic and later Naturalist style. This play is from the middle phase of his career (1863-69), when he resided in Brazil.Lacerda (1829-1903) was born in Lisbon to a wealthy family and studied at the Escola Naval. Following a brief military career, he joined the company of the Teatro de D. Maria II in Lisbon where, under the tutelage of the noted actor Epifânio, he made his debut in 1851. During the 1850s he built a successful and multifaceted career as actor, impresario, and author of a wide variety of dramatic works. From 1863 to 1869 he lived in Brazil, where his plays proved as popular as they had been in Portugal. Returning to Portugal, Lacerda wrote five more plays, ending with Asmodeu in 1881, before poor health forced him to cease writing for the stage.The outer rear wrapper contains a list of 64 plays by Herculano, Almeida Garrett, Camilo Castello-Branco, L.A. Burgain, José Mendes Leal, Lacerda, and J.M.D. Guimarães in Rio de Janeiro, at Rua da Quitanda n.º 98, and in Porto, at Rua dos Caldeireiros n.º 18-20.*** This play not in Innocêncio; on the author, see VIII, 335 and XXII, 464; Bell, Portuguese Literature p. 314; Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) p. 855; Sousa Bastos, Dicionário de teatro português pp. 239-40; Fernando M. Oliveira in Biblos, II, col. 1326; and Grande enciclopedia XIV, 503-4. Porbase locates a single copy at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. NUC: DLC, NN.