Casanovachevalier

1940 · 355100 — Edinburgh Scotland: Printed for the The Limited Editions Club by R. & R. Clark 1940. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Eight excellent condition exemplars of an important set of 18th-century memoirs and that look great on the shelf. Now fully annotated for the first time in English the Memoirs and Notes being translated by Arthur Machen and introduced by the noted Ph.D. in Psychology sexologist and bibliographer Havelock Ellis. Complete in eight volumes. Bound handsomely in a tall quarto hardcover format decorative paper over boards brick-red cloth-backed spines with gilt lettering thereover. Extra-fine tactile paper with sharp bite of the font evident. Quite fine of interior. Titillating memoirs by parts autobiographical and social historical by the famed 18th century Italian writer and adventurer Giacomo Girolamo Casanova whose name has become synonymous with promiscuity and sexual prowess. The Introduction by the English physician eugenicist writer progressive intellectual and social reformer Havelock Ellis is full and engaging and the English translation by the Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century Arthur Machen the pen name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones. The Wikipedia entry about the memoirs says that "Giacomo Girolamo Casanova 2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798 was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography Histoire de ma vie Story of My Life is regarded as one of the most authentic and provocative sources of information about the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century." Collated as follows: Volume I: lxix 1-369 pp.; Volume II: v 1-381 pp.; Volume III: v 1-391 pp.; Volume IV: iv 1-383 pp.; Volume V: iv 1-351 pp.; Volume VI: iv 1-341 pp.; Volume VII: iv 1-359 pp.; Volume VIII: iv 1-383 pp.Member I.O.B.A. C.B.A. and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes and for sets. Printed for the The Limited Editions Club by R. & R. Clark hardcover