THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA DE SEINGALT, Prince of Adventures and the Most Indomitable of Lovers.

London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society Limited, 1922. 2 volumes. First of the edition, printed on fine laid paper and limited to a set number of copies printed, with Introduction, Notes, and Appendices. Illustrated with 2 portraits and 10 photogravures reproducing original drawings by Antoine Gaymard. 8vo, handsomely bound in full polished calf, the upper covers elaborately decorated in gilt with multi-roll tooled borders surrounding gilt ruled inner frames, ruled in gilt at the edges, the lower covers double fillet ruled in gilt, the spines with raised bands gilt stopped and ruled, central ornamental devices gilt within the compartments, two lettered and numbered in gilt, silk doublures, all edges gilt and gauffered in a very pleasant pattern. xvi, 484; 505 including index pp. A very handsome set, the text-blocks and illustrations all well preserved, some of the inevitable foxing at the prelims, a bit to some initial leaves, still a very pleasing copy, Vol. II with some light cracking to the front and rear lower joints, confined to the external portions, hinges strong and the books tight. FIRST OF THE EDITION, LIMITED AND PRINTED ON FINE LAID PAPER, A RARE SET IN HANDSOME BINDINGS. "These famous Memoirs furnish an unique tableau of the eighteenth century, painted for us by a man whose personality was itself unique...Casanova was not a mere retailer of impossibly indelicate stories, but a memoirist of the first order, and the author of one of the most vivacious and artistically faithful pictures of the romantic age in which he moved...This 'passionist,' as the French love to call him, this prince of adventurers, was a man of action, who cared to analyse the springs of that action, and posed to himself, and to all his friends, as a philosopher."- Publisher
The Memoirs of the most celebrated Ladies' Man in history.