Le livre des rois - L'avènement de Salomon

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.
Illustrated with 31 original wood engravings in colour by François-Louis Schmied, including the frontispiece, 6 full-page, 15 compositions in the text and 9 ornamental initial letters.
Handwritten signature of François-Louis Schmied below the justification of the print.