The Memoirs of Casanova – LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB - 1972
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt – LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB - 1972
A PICTORIAL REVIEW
No. 1017 of 1500 copies.
16 full-page colour drawings by Rene ben Sussan who signed the book.
Numerous integrated line drawings within text.
Translated by Arthur Machen.
Selected and edited by J. Rives Child.
Extensive notes at back of book.
Designed by Bram de Does.
Printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen in Haarlem, Netherlands.
Glassine dust-jacket.
White endpapers.
Bound in orange buckram cloth printed with a decorative floral pattern in dark orange, cream gold printed white parchment title label on spine.
Orange slipcase with cream paper title label on edge.
xviii+502 pages
32.1x21.1x5.4cm.
My copy, purchased on the secondary market, arrived in its original mailing box. The book is in pristine as-new condition and even the glassine wrapping is clear and flexible (it is usually cracked and brown in a book this old). It has probably been read but has no internal marks or creases.
The Limited editions Club also published an unsigned, unillustrated eight volume unabridged Memoirs of Casanova in 1940.
Book wrapped in Glassine
The Monthly Letter for this book can be downloaded HERE.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the this series can be viewed here.
A PICTORIAL REVIEW
No. 1017 of 1500 copies.
16 full-page colour drawings by Rene ben Sussan who signed the book.
Numerous integrated line drawings within text.
Translated by Arthur Machen.
Selected and edited by J. Rives Child.
Extensive notes at back of book.
Designed by Bram de Does.
Printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen in Haarlem, Netherlands.
Glassine dust-jacket.
White endpapers.
Bound in orange buckram cloth printed with a decorative floral pattern in dark orange, cream gold printed white parchment title label on spine.
Orange slipcase with cream paper title label on edge.
xviii+502 pages
32.1x21.1x5.4cm.
My copy, purchased on the secondary market, arrived in its original mailing box. The book is in pristine as-new condition and even the glassine wrapping is clear and flexible (it is usually cracked and brown in a book this old). It has probably been read but has no internal marks or creases.
The Limited editions Club also published an unsigned, unillustrated eight volume unabridged Memoirs of Casanova in 1940.
Book wrapped in Glassine
The Monthly Letter for this book can be downloaded HERE.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the this series can be viewed here.
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I never owned a copy of this, having acquired the original 8-volume edition early in my LEC collecting. The production values of this single volume edition are outstanding, judging from your photos, as I would expect from the Enschedé folks, although I can't say I really care for the illustrations from the usually reliable Rene ben Sussan (in fact, I'm not sure Casanova should be illustrated at all).
The only thing that really kept me from getting the book is that the complete earlier edition contains so much more of interest than the amorous escapades, and the original Sirène annotations, which may be outdated, but which are fascinating in their own right, and I worried that much had been left out which I enjoyed in the older version.
With the discovery of the original manuscript (the versions published by the LEC used the Laforgue edition from the 1830s, which in edition to being censored, was in places rewritten by Laforgue), those interested in what Casanova actually wrote will want the recent Pléiade edition (still being published). However, Machen's edition was for so long the accepted standard in English, I don't see any point (for me) of waiting until the new version comes out, in the interest of textual fidelity.
The only thing that really kept me from getting the book is that the complete earlier edition contains so much more of interest than the amorous escapades, and the original Sirène annotations, which may be outdated, but which are fascinating in their own right, and I worried that much had been left out which I enjoyed in the older version.
With the discovery of the original manuscript (the versions published by the LEC used the Laforgue edition from the 1830s, which in edition to being censored, was in places rewritten by Laforgue), those interested in what Casanova actually wrote will want the recent Pléiade edition (still being published). However, Machen's edition was for so long the accepted standard in English, I don't see any point (for me) of waiting until the new version comes out, in the interest of textual fidelity.
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