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THE MEMOIRS OF GIACOMO CASANOVA DI SEINGALT.
London: The Casanova Society, 1922 255 x 200 mm. (10 x 8""). 12 volumes bound. ONE OF 1,000COPIES. vellum-style cloth on spines, blue-grey paper on boards, original tissue-paper "dustwrappers" present, though fairly tattered, nice set.With 12 frontispieces of various kinds (a bust of Casanova a large fold-out map of Venice a fold-out facsimile of two documents in Casanova"s hand an engraving showing a Casanova escape two portraits of Casanova a title page of a minor work by Casanova a portrait of Manon Baletti engravings of a London cityscape and of Vaux Hall Casanova"s death record and his grave).
This is an attractively bound copy of a limited edition of what Franco Fido (in the Cambridge History of Italian Literature) calls one of the most entertaining and exciting tales of the century. Fido says that sometime during the last eight years of his life Casanova (1725-98) composed his "Histoire de ma Vie" above all in order to relive in writing the vivid sensations and intense pleasures of his vagabond libertine life ...Possibly the only complete edition of his memoirs in any language.. Once considered scandalous, the great lover"s memoirs are now seen as a valuable social document. Limited edition of 1000 copies
