SCHMIED, FRANÇOIS-LOUIS. 1873-1941.
MARDRUS, JOSEPH-CHARLES. 1868-1949. Histoire charmante de l'adolescente sucre d'amour. Paris: F.L. Schmied, 1927.
4to (305 x 237 mm). 14 full-page wood engravings colored in pochoir (including frontispiece, highlighted in gilt, and signed in pencil by Schmied) and 635 color panel borders, line fillers, and tailpieces in the Art Deco style, all by Schmied. Unbound in publisher's decorated wrappers, original blue cloth-backed paper chemise and slipcase, minor chipping to paper title labels on spine, custom morocco-backed folding box.

DELUXE EDITION, number 102 of 150 copies (of 170 total), SIGNED by Schmied on the colophon, and frontispiece. Schmied raised Art Deco to its highest level in the field of bibliophilic publishing in France and was responsible for every aspect of the production of his books. He engraved all of the woodcut decorations and plates for Histoire and printed them himself as well as designed the layout of the text, which was printed with the assistance of his son Theo and P. Guillemat. Mardrus was born in Egypt and educated in Lebanon, and as a physician and eminent Orientalist was a fixture in the intellectual circles of Paris. He gives full credit to Schmied for the realization of this work in his inscription on the recto of the limitation page: 'Dear Schmied, it is to please you that this unpublished text has been developed. Without you, without your enthusiasm, it would still be in nothingness. Your friend, J. C. M.' Carteret IV, 263.