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1744. Madrid. Printing of the Convent of La Merced.
Number of pages numbered 132 unnumbered 22 pages.
This work was edited by Diego Torres Villarroel collecting the posthumous poems of D. Gabriel Álvarez de Toledo, one of the founding members of the Royal Spanish Academy of Language. The work begins the aesthetics of the new neoclassical poetry that is leaving the baroque of the previous century. Rare work and difficult to locate. specimen in good conservation condition. 67445103
