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Mardrus, Dr. J.C. - Schmied, F.-L. - Charming...

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Mardrus, Dr. J.C. - Schmied, F.-L. - Charming story of the adolescent Sucre d'Amour. Paris, F.L. Schmied, 1927. In-4, in sheets, illustrated cover with flaps, titled folder, case with red percaline frame - [4 ff.], 145 pp, [5 ff.] Illustrated with 649 compositions drawn, woodcut and printed by Schmied, including 1 frontispiece, 13 full-page plates printed in colour, 132 monochrome bands printed in brown and 503 "bits of lines" printed in monochrome of different colours. First edition of the text. Edition of 170 copies on Arches vellum, numbered at the press and signed by the artist, this one of 150 numbered in Arabic numerals. A book as charming as its heroine with a remarkable work of composition and illustration by Schmied.