A Queda d'um anjo. Romance por Camillo Castello Branco. 2.ª edição revista e correcta pelo auctor.
by CASTELO BRANCO, Camilo
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Lisbon, Typographia Lisbonense, 1873.. 8°, publisher's quarter beige cloth with printed sides, beige with blue printing (rebacked, stained). In good to very good condition. 306 pp., (3 ll.), 4 plates. *** The Advertencia to this second edition is dated 1873. The title on the front cover is slightly different from that on the title page: A Queda d'um anjo. Romance de Camillo Castello Branco. 2.ª edição, illustrada revista e correcta pelo auctor. Moreover, it is stated "Editor Campos Junior, R. Auguste, 81" and "Typographia de G.A. Gutierres da Silva, 51, Rua nova da Palma, 51".The plates are signed in print "Silva Lith." and "Lith. de Vasques & C.ª, R. N. das M.es 15".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 46 (reproducing the title page, which is the same as that of the present copy). 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 …."
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- Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books (US)
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- Title
- A Queda d'um anjo. Romance por Camillo Castello Branco. 2.ª edição revista e correcta pelo auctor.
- Author
- CASTELO BRANCO, Camilo
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- Hardcover
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- Lisbon, Typographia Lisbonense, 1873.
- Keywords
- Portugal, literature, Portuguese, Sonnets
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