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CASANOVA DE SEINGALT, G. G. Mémoires ... Édition nouvelle publiée sous la direction de Raoul Vèze, d'après le texte de l'édition princeps Leipzig-Bruxelles-Paris (1826-1838). Variantes et commentaires historiques et critiques . Paris: Imprimerie Arrault for Éditions de La Sirène, 1924-1935. 12 volumes, 8° (243 x 158mm). Half-titles. Plates, facsimiles, illustrations, head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary half red calf over patterned paper boards, gilt morocco lettering-pieces, original printed wrappers bound in, top edges gilt (some light, partial fading on boards, a few minor scuff-marks). 'THE EDITION, PAR EXCELLENCE , OF THE MEMOIRS , with very extensive notes contributed by nearly all the great European Casanovists, with the variants noted between the text of Laforgue, the one used for this edition, and those of Schütz and Paulin [...] the edition will long remain an invaluable one for scholars' (Childs). Childs A.216. POLLIO, Joseph (1852-1930). Bibliographie anecdotique et critique des oeuvres de Jacques Casanova . Paris: Imprimerie Durand for L. Giraud-Badin, 1926. 8° (250 x 163mm). Frontispiece, illustrations and facsimiles. Original wrappers printed in red and black (spine slightly faded and rubbed). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 680 COPIES. Childs D.791 ('Especially valuable for C's works other than the Memoirs '). CHILDS, James Rives (b.1893). Casanoviana. An annotated world bibliography . Vienna: Ferdinand Berger for The Casanova Society of Virginia and Christian M. Nebehay, 1956. 8° (228 x 158mm). Half-tone frontispiece and facsimiles. Original red cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 17 OF 500 COPIES. (14)