WILDE, Oscar; SCHMIED, François-Louis (illus.)

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Deux Contes. Signed limited edition, number 59 of 162 copies only, signed by Schmied on the original drawing, of these two French translations of Wilde's The Happy Prince and The Nightingale and the Rose, originally published in 1888. François-Louis Schmied (1873-1941), a Swiss-born French painter, engraver and printer, incarnated the art deco style in the 1920s, which he brought to its peak in the bibliophile-oriented publishing field.

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