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Paris, Léon Vanier [colophon: Achevè d'imprimer le deux avril mil huit cent quatre-vingt-douze pour Léon Vanier éditeur par Henri Jouve, 15, rue Racine, 15 a Paris], 1892.. FIRST EDITION. Large 8°, later sheep (ca. 1925-1950; some slight binding wear), spine with raised bands in six compartments richly decorated in blind, crimson leather lettering-pieces in second and fourth compartments from head with author and title in gilt within double-ruled gilt borders, date of publication in blind at foot, front cover with author, title, and date within ruled border, all in blind, marbled endleaves, leather edges of pastedowns decorated in blind, uncut, original printed wrappers bound in, red silk ribbon place-marker. Publisher's advertisements on rear wrapper. Uncut. In fine condition. Author's signed and dated presentation inscription on recto of first leaf: "Á Senhora // D. Carolinha Michaelis de Vasconcellos // com os meus mais altos respeitos. // Pariz, 12 Abril // 1892. Antonio Nobre." Pictorial lithograph bookplate of Alberto Ortigão de Oliveira. (4 ll.), 157, (1 blank) pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST EDITION of this seminal work of Portuguese Symbolist poetry, by far the most important work by the short-lived António [Pereira] Nobre (Porto 1867-Foz do Douro, 1900), a key precursor to the Modernist movement. The edition by Léon Vanier, publisher of the most important French Symbolists, was issued in a very restricted number of copies - probably about 200. Later editions, of which there were many, were substantially altered. Provenance: Carolina [Wilhelme] Michaëlis de Vasconcelos (Berlin, 1851-Porto, 1925) was a philologist, literary critic and university professor, and the wife of Joaquim de Vasconcelos. In her youth she frequented the homes of the families of Jacob Grimm, Alexander von Humboldt, and Varnhagen von Ense, among others. See Teresa Araújo in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 483-4; Maria Manuela Gouveia Delille in Biblos, V, 615-20; and Grande encyclopédia XVII, 161-3. Alberto Ortigão de Oliveira (Porto, 1904-Porto, 1974) was a poet and literary critic.*** Almeida Marques 1449 (copy in more recent binding, with top edges gilt and repairs to wrappers). For António Nobre see Paula Mourão in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 339-41; José Carlos Seabra Pereira in Biblos, III, 1136-42; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 52-4. Also Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (16th ed.) pp. 1008-9. Porbase locates three copies: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. Jisc repeats British Library only, citing many later editions. KVK (51 databases searched), which locates many later editions, but for the first edition only the copies cited by Porbase, and the one in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Hollis cites the copy acquired from us in 2001, and five other editions. Not located in Orbis, which cites six editions, 1987-2009.