SCHMIED (François-Louis) - ESCHYLE. Prometheus in chains. - Lot 303

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SCHMIED (François-Louis) - ESCHYLE. Prometheus in chains. - Lot 303
SCHMIED (François-Louis) - ESCHYLE. Prometheus in chains. Paris: Société des Médecins Bibliophiles, 1941. - In-4, 325 x 249: (2 ff. white), 107 pp., (4 ff. last white), illustrated cover. Dark brown morocco, flat and back decorated with a continuous decoration in the art deco style consisting of gold, silver, orange, green, havana box pieces and stripes, as well as straight, oblique, scrolled and curved gold fillets, smooth back, Dark brown morocco edge-to-edge lining, framed cold mesh, emerald green suede hilt, gold edges on witnesses, preserved cover and back, shirt with dark brown morocco overlap and stripes, case (Marie-Josée Guian - L.& C. Berthaux gilder). Edition of Prométhée enchaîné in Paul Mazon's translation, illustrated with 39 compositions by François-Louis SCHMIED (1873-1941) engraved on wood by his son Theo, with the mark of the Society of Bibliophile Doctors at the top, 17 full-page figures, 20 in the text and the ornament on page 111. This is the last work by François-Louis Schmied who died on January 19, 1941. The edition will be printed in the spring of this year. Limited edition of 150 copies on Arches wove paper. The number 119, which does not correspond to what is stated in the justification where it is written that only the first 100 were numbered in Arabic numerals . Very beautiful copy bound by Marie-Josée Guian for her own account, enriched with a typed letter from the Society of Bibliophilic Doctors dated 1948.
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