Giacomo CASANOVA

Bibliothèque de La Pléiade edition printed on Bible paper.
Publisher's full blue grained sheep bindings, blue top edges, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets.
Fine complete set retaining protective wraps but lacking dust jackets and slipcases.

New illustrated edition of the rare anonymous erotic suite of 48 engravings found in some copies. 8 engravings per volume.
Contemporary half glazed navy calf binding. Spine with raised bands elegantly decorated. Author, title, volume number and date in gilt. Top edge gilt. Some traces of rubbing on the raised bands. Borders slightly rubbed. Some corners rubbed. Lower right corner of volume 1 having received an impact. Fine laid paper perfectly fresh (some foxing on the first engraving of volume V). Uncut copy.
This edition was made from the Paulin edition of 1842. Carteret (Le trésor du bibliophile): "There exists a suite of 48 line engravings, unsigned, which are added to this edition..."

Bibliothèque de La Pléiade edition printed on Bible paper.
Publisher's full grained blue sheep bindings, blue tops, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets.
A small tear to the cellophane at the head of the spine of the first volume.
Handsome set complete with cellophane covers, dust jackets (except for the second volume) and slipcases.

New edition. Printed on laid paper. Uncut copy with full margins.
Contemporary half glazed morocco with chocolate corners, signed on first endpaper by Smeers. Spine with 5 raised bands richly decorated, gilt title-label, volume labels and date. Top edges gilt. Occasional worming. Light traces of rubbing. Leaf 395, small angular lack.
Superb copy.

Illustrated with 16 original copper engravings by Kees Van Dongen, one of 900 numbered copies on Vergé du Marais paper.
Publisher's full marbled fawn sheep binding, smooth spine with some rubbing, top headcap worn down, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped, bookplate pasted on a pastedown, speckled edges.
Handsome interior condition.

First edition and the only complete.
Contemporary half shagreen.
A nice set almost without foxing and bound in elegant contemporary uniform binding.

First edition, a service de presse (advance) copy.
Spine faded, paper yellowed.

New edition of the French translation, one of the numbered copies, the only issue.
Portrait of the author as frontispiece.
Spine and boards sunned, a small lack to the first board, handsome interior condition.