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Oscar WILDE. SCHMIED.
Two Tales.
Paris, Schmied, 1926.
Fees include commission and taxes.
Two Tales.
Paris, Schmied, 1926.
A khaki-coloured leather-lined case with a smooth back and gold lettering, featuring sycamore-coloured lids with flaps, all housed in a matching slipcase, 2nd and 3rd endpapers in bronze calfskin, full fawn box on the covers highlighted by an interlacing of three gilt bands and two on the back cover, adorned with an enamelled plaque, box-bound inside covers, gilt edges (one corner slightly rubbed against the slipcase, edges slightly soiled, spine very slightly scratched and subtly tarnished, a few small scuffs). Edition of *The Happy Prince and the Nightingale* and *The Rose*, tales by Oscar Wilde, excerpts from the 1888 collection *The Happy Prince and Other Tales*, translated by Albert Savine.
A very fine copy, produced by François-Louis Schmied (1873–1941) in a magnificent contemporary binding in fawn-coloured box leather, signed by Annick Butré.
Limited edition of 162 numbered copies, printed on laid paper and signed in pencil by Schmied in the colophon. This copy is no. 112.
Copy enhanced with an ornament on the binding: a rectangular, coloured enamel plaque mounted on the front cover, reproducing Schmied’s motif (on the frontispiece). With colour woodcuts (including the woodcut on the cover and 4 plates) and colour ornamental woodcuts in the text, by F.-L. Schmied, in vertical bands in the first volume and horizontal bands in the second.
Carteret, Illustrated, 408.