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POPE, Alexander.

[Essay on Man]. Ensaio sobre o homem...

traduzido verso por verso por Francisco Bento Maria Targini, Baraõ de Saõ Lourenço.

Stock Code
97746
Londres [London], Na Officina Typographica de C. Whittingham [Chiswick Press], 1819
£6,500

An excellent presentation set in deluxe velvet binding with Portuguese royal coat-of-arms gilt-stamped to the covers. This edition of Pope's famous poetic essay was translated by Francisco Bento Maria Targini, Viscount of Sao Lorenço, a poet in his own right and a keen student of philosophy.

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Description

3 vols, large paper copy, 4to, printed in English & Portuguese, frontispieces and plates on mounted india paper, some browning to and offsetting from plates, silk endpapers, specially bound in full contemporary red velvet with gilt-stamped coat-of-arms of the Royal house of Portugal to covers and morocco lettering pieces on spines, cracking to one hinge but overall an impressive set.

Bibliography

Brunet IV, 818

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