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SCHMIED, Francois Louis (illustrator); MARDRUS, Joseph Charles.

La Creation.

Les Trois premiers livres de la Genèse, suivis de la Généalogie adamique.

Stock Code
106283
Paris, Gonin & Cie, 1928
£6,000

A lavishly illustrated production of the first three chapters of Genesis.

'A daring and innovative design with the copy of the first two books set in capital letters in narrow columns with decorative bars to fill out the lines where necessary. The small illustrations in the columns are brilliant in color. Dominating full-page illustrations break the continuity of the text. The format is completely changed in Book Three with a wider measure of type and the illustrations integrated with the text.' (Ward Ritchie)

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Description

Limited edition, one of 175 copies signed by the artist, this being no. 169, from a total edition of 195, 4to (34 x 23.5 cm); text printed in black and colours throughout, 41 woodcut compositions in colour after Schmied, 12 of which are full-page, most plates and illustrations heightened in gilt or silver; loose as issued in the original printed wrappers, minor creasing to spine, protected in later black cloth chemise and slipcase, a fine example.

Bibliography

Carteret, Illustrés, IV, 263.

Stock ID:106283

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