Notes On Publication
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Complete Memoires of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Title: The Complete Memoires of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Author: Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Release Date: November 11, 2004 [EBook #2981]
THE COMPLETE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798
THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS.
[Etext Editors Note: This is a compilation of the 30 volumes of The Memoires of Jacques Casanova previously published by The Gutenberg Project in the individual files below. ..]
From the Translator's Preface:
The manuscript was written in French and came into the possession of the publisher Brockhaus, of Leipzig, who had it translated into German, and printed. From this German edition, M. Aubert de Vitry re-translated the work into French, but omitted about a fourth of the matter, and this mutilated and worthless version is frequently purchased by unwary bibliophiles. In the year 1826, however, Brockhaus, in order presumably to protect his property, printed the entire text of the original MS. in French, for the first time, and in this complete form, containing a large number of anecdotes and incidents not to be found in the spurious version, the work was not acceptable to the authorities, and was consequently rigorously suppressed. Only a few copies sent out for presentation or for review are known to have escaped, and from one of these rare copies the present translation has been made and solely for private circulation.