F.-L. Schmied Books at the Clark

A Temporary Handlist


Unbound as issued in board liner and slipcase unless otherwise described. From Ward Ritchie's bequest unless Clark "Press coll." shelfmark given.

1. ÆSCHYLUS. Prométhée enchaîné. Paris: for the Société des Medecins Bibliophiles, 1941. One of 150 copies.

2. (BIBLE). Le cantique des cantiques. Paris: F.-L. Schmied, 1925. One of 110 copies. Inscribed by Schmied to Monnier (?).

3. (BIBLE). La création. Paris: aux dépens de M.M. Gonin et Cie, Lausanne, 1928. One of 195 copies. With additional suite of illustrations in color (numbered "No. 3 15/xx").

4. ____________. Separate suite of illustrations printed in black, no. 56 of an unstated limitation.

5. (BIBLE). Le livre des rois. Lausanne: Gonin & Cie, 1930. One of 175 (actually 200) copies.

6. ____________. Another copy, half red morocco, decorated paper boards. Press coll. Schmied.

7. (BIBLE). Ruth et Booz. Paris: F.L. Schmied, 1930. One of 172 copies.

8. (Book of the dead). Le livre de la vérité de parole. Paris: F.-L. Schmied, 1929. One of 150 copies. Inscribed by Schmied to boxer "Kid" Francis, 1929. Black calf. Original gouache for one of the illustrations laid in.

9. ____________. Another copy, inscribed by Schmied to Ritchie, 1931.

10. ____________. Another copy. Press coll. Schmied.

11. CERCLE LYONNAISE DU LIVRE. Cercle Lyonnaise du Livre diner du 31 mai 1927 chez Fréchin-Fillioux. Press boxes Ritchie (in album shelved flat at end).

12. CHATEAUBRIAND, RENÉ DE. Les aventures du dernier Abencérage. Paris: Bibliophiles de l'Amérique Latine, 1930. One of 140 copies.

13. FORT, PAUL. Les ballades françaises. Lyon: Cercle Lyonnais du Livre, 1927. One of 165 copies. Red morocco by Gruel. Bound in: original gouache of illustration to "La vieille vie de la forêt"; a suite of illustrations printed in black (no. 9 of an unstated limitation); two suites showing the stages in printing of illustrations; menu, Cercle Lyonnais du Livre, 31 May 1927.

14. GIRAUDOUX, JEAN. Amphitryon 38. Paris: Éditions du Bélier, 1931. One of 1000 copies. Boun in wrappers.

15. GRAUX, LUCIEN. L'Agneau du Moghreb. Paris: pour les amis du Docteur Lucien-Graux, 1942. One of 125 copies. Inscribed "Exemplaire du graveur Théo Schmied".

16. GRAUX, LUCIEN. Le tapis de prières. Paris: pour les amis du Docteur Lucien-Graux, 1938. One of 125 copies. Printed binder's instructions laid in.

17. KIPLING, RUDYARD. Kim. Lausanne: Gonin et Cie, 1930. One of 140 copies. Red morocco by Donnelly.

18. ____________. Suite de 15 planches pour Kim de Rudyard Kipling compositions et gravures de F-L. Schmied. One of 160 copies.

19. MARDRUS, J.C. Histoire charmante de l'Adolescente Sucre d'Amour. Paris: F.L. Schmied, 1927. One of 170 copies, this one of 20 for the participants. Inscribed by author, 21 Dec. 1927, to Mr. Van der Vrecken de Bormans. The larger format of the two editions.

20. MAURY, GENEVIÈVE. L'Enfant a la charrue. Paris: Jules Maynial, 1918. One of 104 copies. Boards in slipcase

21. ____________. Another copy. Press coll. Schmied.

22. MORAND, PAUL. Paysages Méditerranéens. Paris, 1933. One of 110 copies.

23. NERVAL, GÉRARD DE. La main enchantée. Paris: Éditions du Bélier, 1930. One of 1000 copies, this one unnumbered. Bound in wrappers.

24. Le paradis Musulman. Paris: F. L. Schmied, 1930. One of 177 copies. With two additional suites of prints, one in black, one in color.

25. SCHMIED, FRANÇOIS-LOUIS. Catalogue des livres de F.-L. Schmied. Paris: F.-L. Schmied, 1927. One of 300 copies. Inscribed by Schmied to Elliot A. Weiser. In original box.

26. ____________. Another copy, later cloth, original front wrapper bound in.

27. SCHMIED, FRANÇOIS-LOUIS. Peau-Brune. Lyon: Société des XXX de Lyon, 1931. One of 135 copies.

28. THARAUD, JÉROME & JEAN. Marrakech ou les seigneurs de l'Atlas. Lyon: Cercle Lyonnais du Livre, 1924. One of 152 copies.

29. THUILE, JEAN. Prélude suivi de adieu a ma fille. Paris: Auguste Blaizot, 1947. One of 210 copies.

30. VAILLAT, LEANDRE. L'Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune. Paris: chez L. Carteret, et chez F.-L. Schmied, 1921. One of 200 (of 225) copies on Vergé-d'Arches paper. Inscribed to Ritchie by Mark Lansburgh, 1968.

31. VIGNY, ALFRED DE. Daphné. Paris: F.L. Schmied, 1924. One of 140 copies, this one unnumbered and unsigned. With an additional copy of the title fold, inscribed by Schmied to George Millard.

32. WILDE, OSCAR. Deux contes. Paris: F.-L. Schmied, 1926. One of 162 copies. Inscription by Schmied (recipient's name effaced).

33. ____________. Another copy. *fPR5818.H253Fr 1926.


Books Illustrated by Théo Schmied

I. AULNOY, Madame D'. L'Oiseau bleu. Montrouge: Théo et Florence Schmied, 1949. One of 80 copies. Press coll. Schmied.

II. HESSE, HERMANN. Knulp. Montrouge: Théo et Florence Schmied, 1949. One of 1000 copies.

III. CHAMISO, ADELBERT DE. L'Extraordinaire histoire de Pierre Schlemihl. Strasbourg and Montrouge: Robert Beltz and Théo Schmied, 1951. One of 341 copies. With a suite of illustrations printed in black.

IV. MOLIÈRE. L'Avare. Paris: Éditions du Bélier, 1931. One of 1000 copies. Bound in wrappers.

V. ____________. Another copy, inscribed by Théo Schmied to Ritchie.

VI. SCHMIED, THÉO. Portrait of François-Louis Schmied; color woodcut after 1914 self-portrait. 1976.

VII. THUILE, JEAN. Prélude suivi de Adieu a ma fille. Paris: Librairie Auguste Blaizot, 1947. One of 210 copies. Bound in original wrappers.


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