Provocative Period Pieces

Provocative Period PiecesThis selection of works collected by Boston dealer Charles Martignettc is the second in a series we will run over the next few years (the first appeared in October 1980). Martignette has what he believes is the world's largest private collection of erotica. On this spread are reproductions of engravings from a rare eight-volume edition of Casanova's Memoirs, published in Brussels in 1872. The first major illustrative version of the Memoirs, the engravings were based on 2...