The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (12 Volumes, Bound in a Lovely 1/2 Morocco)

  • 1/2 morocco
  • Aventuros, 1925
By Jcques Casanova de Seingalt
Aventuros, 1925. 1/2 morocco. Near Fine. Rockwell Kent. The 1925 limited edition. #8 OF THE FIRST 150 COPIES (WITHIN A LARGER LIMITATION OF 1,000 COPIES) BOUND IN A SUMPTUOUS, DEEP-RED HALF-MOROCCO, WITH WONDERFUL GILT-TOOLING ALONG THE SPINES. Complete in 12 octavo volumes, with top-edges gilt. All 12 volumes bright, clean and Near Fine. "Translated into English by Arthur Machen, with an Introduction by Arthur Symons, a new Preface by the translator and twelve drawings by Rockwell Kent". Additionally, stated along the limitation page: "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

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