Author: Casanova, Giacomo and Arthur Machen, et al.
Title: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Description: [New York], Aventuros, 1925. Set #690 of 1,000 printed. Hardcover. Black boards with gilt illustration and design on the spine; top-edge textblock gilt; 12 volumes, with many uncut pages; frontispieces in each volume; richly illustrated. Each book includes a bookplate, also designed by Rockwell Kent, for the previous owner. Each volume has a frontis by Rockwell Kent. "This edition is printed for subscribers only and limited to one thousand numbered sets of which this set is number 690. The type used is derived from a fifteenth century Italian handwrought face and the paper has been specially made and watermarked to reproduce an early Italian handmade paper." -- Book Interior. Set weighs approximately 33 pounds, which will require additional shipping costs. Ill.: Kent, Rockwell. Good+ (Boards and spine strips are edgeworn with light bumping/smudging/scuffing/scratching/foxing; textblock edges are lightly worn/smudged; bookplates ifc; bookplates of former owner ifc of all volumes; some inner hinges are cracked; interiors are very clean with the occasional smudge or foxing; bindings appear solid.) .

Keywords: Biography / Autobiography, Giacomo Casanova ; Casanova, Giacomo ; ; Kent, Rockwell


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