Fabulario composto e dedicado a sua alteza Real o Principe D. Carlos ….

Lisbon, Livraria Ferreira, 1888.. 8°, original beige printed wrappers (slight soiling, some waterstains, spine slightly defective at head and foot, tear of 2 cm. at inner margin of front wrapper). Excellent frontispiece printed photograph of the author by Phototypia Casa Fritz, Porto. Title-page somewhat browned due to offsetting from frontispiece. Overall in good to very good condition. Author's presentation inscription on recto of half-title: "Ao meu querido Amigo // O Couns. Adolpho // Ferreira de Loureiro // off. o autor." Ink signature of Adolpho Loureiro on title-page. xix, 793 pp., (1 l.). *** Second edition, much revised, of these fables in verse. Henrique O’Neill (1821-1889), descendant of an Irish family that arrived in Portugal during the eighteenth century, was a distinguished and literate man. After receiving his degree in law from Coimbra he taught Portuguese at Göttingen, then returned to Lisbon to enter the judiciary. O’Neill counted among his acquaintances Alexandre Herculano and Antonio Feliciano de Castilho, and belonged to the Academia Real das Ciências de Lisboa and the Instituto de Coimbra. In 1873 he became perceptor of D. Carlos and D. Afonso, the sons of D. Luis I, and veador of Maria Pia of Savoy, D. Luis’s consort. For these services he was named Visconde de Santa Monica. Innocêncio notes that O'Neill seldom published his works with his name on them: "Cultivando as letras com íntimo amor, poucas vezes tem dado ao prelo, sob o seu nome, producções suas." Provenance: On the military engineer and prolific author of poems and novels Adolfo Ferreira Loureiro (1836-1911), see Grande enciclopédia portuguesa e brasileira, XV, 490-1 and Innocêncio VIII, 7; XX, 83-87; Aditamentos pp. 2-4.*** Innocêncio X, 392, mentioning the first word of the title, but without giving date or collation of any edition. Porbase locates four copies, all in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. No edition located in Jisc. NUC: DLC.