SCHMIED (François-Louis) - SUETONE. - Lot 123

SCHMIED (François-Louis) - SUETONE. The Twelve Caesars. Unpublished translation by Joseph Estève. Preface by Louis Barthou. Paris: F.-L. Schmied, 1928. - In-8, 285 x 190: frontispiece, (7 ff. 3 first blanks), 6 pp., (2 ff.), CCCXXVI pp., (7 ff. 3 last blanks), 12 plates, printed cover. Edition entirely designed and illustrated by François-Louis SCHMIED (1873-1941), with a frontispiece, 12 portraits, 9 culs-de-lampe and a full-page composition, wood-engraved under the direction of his son Théo Schmied. The hors-texts bear the artist's printed signature. Edition of 175 copies on Arches vellum, signed by François-Louis Schmied at the justification (no. 50). A copy by the engraver and printer Pierre Bouchet, enriched with this autograph letter signed by the artist on the false title: to Pierre Bouchet // my pupil and my friend // Schmied Spine slightly faded.