THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA (THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASA NOVA)

Edinburgh: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Hardcover. Small university bookplates on the front pastedown of each volume. Near Fine in two slipcases, one Near Fine the other would be but for a closed split at one top edge. Eight tall octavo (6-1/2" x 11-3/8") volumes in two slipcases. Bound in half buckram and decorated paper. Translated by Arthur Machen with an introduction by Havelock Ellis. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed by R. & R. Clark. The first fully annotated edition in English of this classic of erotica. Copy #281 of 1500 copies, issued unsigned.