François-Louis SCHMIED

Le Livre des rois. L'Avènement de Salomon Edition translated from Semitic texts by Joseph-Charles Mardrus and printed with 195 numbered copies on Arches, ours is one of the 20 hors commerce copies comprising a double set of illustrations in black and in colour.
Bradel binding in half olive green morocco, spine decorated with a set of gilt squares of different sizes, one of them with a piece of pink mosaic morocco in the centre, gilt fillet frame on the snake skin paper boards, olive green endpapers, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, elegant binding signed Thomas Boichot.
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First edition of 300 copies.
Autograph inscription from François-Louis schmied to the Count Philippon in pencil : "... pour le délicat souvenir que m'a laissée sa visite."
With 42 plates hors texte and full page.
Rare spots mostly affecting the verso of some plates, internally good.

One of 140 numbered copies on laid paper and decorated with 50 original woodcuts by François-Louis Schmied in color enhanced with silver and gold.
Full black calf binding, smooth spine inlaid with gray stingray leather, friezes of gilt squares at head and foot of the spine, upper board decorated with a vertical listel with inlays of stingray leather, cork, snake skin, salmon scales, gilt title at foot of the first cover and frieze of gilt squares at head, repetition in miniature of the listel on the upper board at the foot of the second board, with title in gilt : "F.L. Schmied 1924", covers and spine preserved, gilt paper pastedowns, gray lambskin endpapers, gilt top edge, housed in a