Marilia de Dirceo

Creator

Gonzaga, Tomás Antônio

Place

Rio de Janeiro

Publisher

Na Impressão Regia. Com licença de S.A.R

Date

1810

Edition

Nova ed̨icão

Notes

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head pieces

The "nova edição" parts 1, 2 and 3 were all printed in Rio de Janeiro by the Impressão Regia in 1810

Attributed to Tomás Antônio Gonzaga by Moraes

In verse

According to the Bibliografia da Impressão Régia do Rio de Janeiro, there are several imperfections in printing in this issue of the epic poem: the text on p. 46 has erroneously also been printed on p. 48, affecting 20 lines of text in two stanzas; "lyra", or stanza no. XVII on p. 64-67" has been erroneously numbered as XXIII; the running titles on p. 17, 53, 69, and 85 have been erroneously printed as "De D rceo.", "De Dirceo.", "De Drceo.", and "De Dirceo." respectively; not mentioned is the erroneously printed "De Dirc.e.o." on p. 111 in the John Carter Brown Library copy

Part 2 was first printed in Lisbon, 1799, and part 3 was first printed in Lisbon, 1800

Signatures: [A]⁸ ([A]1, [A]2 vesos blank) B-G⁸ (C2 missigned c2) H⁴ (H4 blank)

"Nova edição" refers to this first Brazilian imprint of the first part of the first edition printed in Lisbon in 1792

Local notes

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Bromsen Fund

John Carter Brown Libray copy has the half-title leaf with title "Marilia de Dirceo" which is lacking in all extant copies, according to the bibliographies cited above

John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound with calf spine and stiff marbled wrappers; housed in brown cloth-covered slipcase measuring 19 cm. in height