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Book Description Large 8°, original printed wrappers. As new. 85, (1) pp., (1 blank l.), illus. One of 500 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The title on the front cover reads Inventário do Espólio de Ramalho Ortigão. José Duarte Ramalho Ortigão (1836-1915), an important author in his own right, was a close friend of Eça de Queiroz. A member of the Romantic school, Ramalho Ortigão was a literary critic with a sharp eye for manners and morals and a gift for describing them. He began his career as a journalist in 1859, publishing his first book in 1866. His style was influenced by Teófilo Braga and Eça de Queiroz. With the latter he collaborated on O mysterio da estrada de Cintra, 1871, and founded As farpas, in which the two satirized the foibles and follies of life in Lisbon. (After the first 15 issues, which appeared in 1872, the journal was written and published by Ramalho Ortigão alone for more than a decade.) Ramalho Ortigão is also known for his descriptions of his travels, such as A Hollanda, 1883: "A vivid, witty and charming account of Holland, with malicious side-reflections on Portugal" (Bell, Portuguese Literature p. 322). Notas de viagem describes his trip to the 1878 World's Fair in Paris. *** See Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (16th ed.) pp. 840-2, et passim; also Forjaz de Sampaio, História da literatura portuguesa illustrada IV, 288-90; Ana Luísa Vilela in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 352-5; Maria de Lourdes A. Ferraz in Biblos, III, 1303-7; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 193-6. Seller Inventory # 38069