His surviving unpublished works (some manuscripts were burnt at his death) were gathered in the early 1720s by an admirer — Fernando Monge — who paid to have them published beginning with vol. I in 1722 but with a hiatus before vol. II appeared in 1733. A third volume was promised but precious few copies of it are known. The Spanish National Library writes of vol. III: “El tomo 3o. desconocido de los bibliógrafos, tiene retrato del autor, pero carece de portada, y solo llega á la paga. 184 con interrupcion de las 91 á 94 y 171 á 174.”

Present here is vol. II which contains a full-page woodcut portrait and the author's “poesias sagradas,” including some fine villancicos.

WorldCat locates three U.S. libraries owning only vol. I, one U.S. library owning vols. I and II, and only one claiming ownership of all three. NUC Pre-1956 adds no additional copies.

•  Palau 135687 (knowing only of vol. I & II). On author, see: Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal, e Iberoamérica, fiche 503, frames 12–20.   Contemporary limp vellum, remnants of ties; text block separating from binding at front, but still attached. Text browned (as usual), some gatherings heavily; dog-earing and some staining. Lacks one text leaf (pp. 185–86).An imperfect but worthwhile copy of a rarity.  (29090)

The final 264 pages offer a life of St. Igantius Loyola.

Neither WorldCat nor NUC Pre-1956 locates any copies in U.S. libraries, but we know of an unreported copy at the John Carter Brown Library; WorldCat finds one copy in Chile and one in Mexico. The Catálogo Colectivo del Patrimonio Bibliográfico and the OPAC of the BNE find no copies.

•  Medina, Mexico, 3905 (incorrect collation, not noting the first 268 pp.); DeBacker-Sommervogel, IV, 1950.   Contemporary vellum, inked “label” with title to upper spine in brown/black and a charming red-inked shelfmark at bottom. Light waterstaining/soil to lower outer corners at rear, with a bit of other foxing/soiling elsewhere; headers touched by binder's knife in one small section. A very good copy.  (29539)

•  Examination: ESTC T33662; Sabin 41680. Short Considerations: ESTC T48138. Removed from a nonce volume and now in a Mylar folder; sewing mostly gone with last few leaves separated. Title-page with small numerical stamp and both early and later inked notations; inner margin of first text page with institutional stamp; pages otherwise clean. Collation of second piece matches other recorded holdings.

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The title-page of this volume is printed in red and black; the engraved frontispiece portrait is signed “A.C.F.”

Scarce.  Searches of OCLC, RLIN, and NUC Pre-1956 find only three U.S. and two overseas locations.

•  Contemporary half mottled sheep with speckled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; sides and edges with a few small scuffs, leather chipped at head of spine and along parts of back joint. Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1829 and with stamp (no other markings). Mild browning and spotting, with a few leaves more notably foxed; one leaf with ink stains. Pagination skips from 360 to 369, with text uninterrupted as shown by catchword and signature. A stout, rather handsome volume.