Rasgos metricos em varias poezias. Offerecidas á Senhora Sta. Anna ….

Lisbon, Na Officina de Francisco da Silva, Livreiro da Academia Real, e do Senado, 1742.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, contemporary speckled sheep (minor wear; front pastedown endleaf loose), spine gilt with raised bands in five compartments, crimson leather lettering piece in second compartment from head, text-block edges sprinkled red. Woodcut vignette on title page. Woodcut headpiece and initials. Typographical headpieces. Woodcut tailpieces. Single pinpoint wormhole in lower blank margin of 31 leaves, and slightly larger in another 8 leaves, never affecting text. In very good condition. Contemporary ink rubric monogram on half title. Contemporary ink inscription on title page. (16 ll.), 246 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Despite being dedicated to Santa Anna, this volume contains poems of practically every type, on a wide variety of subjects, including some in very free style - even burlesque. The preliminaries, in addition to the dedication and licenses, contain an anthology of Baroque poems, including 11 sonnets and 2 décimas by Antonio Lopes de Castilho, Francisco de Sousa e Almeida (3), Gaspar Pinheiro da Camara Manoel, José Gomes de Menezes, "J.T.D.M.," Marcos José Monteiro da Veiga Coelho (2), Paulo Nogueira de Andrade, Pedro de Azevedo Tojal, Jacinto Narciso da Rosa, and the author. The first 66 pages of the main text consist of 65 sonnets. These are followed by decimas, another sonnet, oytavas, liras, quintilhas, redondilhas, epigramas, and romances. Finally, from p. 213 to the end is a combination of prose and verse titled "Sonhava o cego, que via. Pois que he o que via o Cego?"Alexandre António de Lima (1699-1760), a native of Lisbon, was a member of the Academia dos Ocultos and the Academia dos Aplicados. He is said to have written some of the pieces included in later editions of António José da Silva's Teatro cómico português.*** Innocêncio I, 27. Barbosa Machado IV, 7. Bell, Portuguese Literature p. 274. See also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, I, 488; Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed.), pp. 496, 611. Porbase locates three copies, two in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (no collations given) and one in the Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa (with one less preliminary leaf). Jisc repeats British Library.