SCHMIED, François-Louis Lot n° 465

The Song of Songs. Translation by Ernest Renan In-8°, frontispiece, a composition on each page including bands and initials, a full-page illustration and 6 three-quarter-page illustrations, woodcuts in colour, enhanced with gold and silver. The ornamentation, composition and layout of this work are the work of Gustave Miklos (Hungarian sculptor) for François-Louis Schmied, who also executed the woodcutting and printing on his hand presses. Pierre Bouchet, engraver and pressman, also contributed to this publication. With the usual discharges on the facing pages. Edition: one of 110 copies on Arches vellum, this copy bears the n°96, signed in pencil by Schmied. Beautifully bound in havana morocco, mosaic decoration on the upper board, slipcase lined. Binding signed by G(ermaine) Schroeder One of the major books of the Art Deco period. The revolutionary layout proposes a completely new aesthetic of the book. After the writer and librarian Yves Peyré, Schroeder was "one of the first female bookbinders to venture on the Art Deco path . [...] Germaine Schroeder is at the forefront of the inventors of Art Deco." By 1925, she had acquired a reputation that brought her clientele such as the politician Louis Barthou, Coco Chanel and her entourage as well as the writer Jean Cocteau Paris F.-L. Schmied 1925