Bidspirit auction | Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro

Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro - A Morte de D. João, 4ª Edição - Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro, 1887. Published in 1887 in Lisbon, released by the renowned Livraria de Antonio Maria Pereira (Editor). This is a copy of the esteemed fourth edition of one of the most celebrated, vigorous and controversial works of nineteenth-century Portuguese poetry, entitled ”A Morte de D. João” (The Death of D. João), by the brilliant and controversial Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro (1850-1923). A poem of extraordinary satirical, anti-clerical and social bent, its original publication caused immense scandal and heated intellectual debates at the time. The copy is in octavo format of 323,[1] pages, bound in a period fully rigid red canvas (percaline) binding, quite worn, showing visible wear on the covers and corners, with significant damage to the spine edges (with partial loss of canvas on the upper and lower cover). Copy with the following provenance and conservation details: the flyleaf has a torn bottom right corner (with physical paper missing) and bears only a circular/oval stamp in blue ink from the Livraria Academica João Lourenço Pereira Porto; the text block has normal acid stains for period paper.