Histoire charmante de l’adolescente sucre d’amour. by SCHMIED, François-Louis, illustrator.…

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~ Histoire charmante de l’adolescente sucre d’amour. Paris: F. L. Schmied, 1927.

Folio (300 × 238 mm), pp. [8], 145, 12, [1], including 14 wood engraved colour illustrations, 649 vignettes, initials and ornaments. Some dispersed spotting, occasional offsetting from wooduct ornaments to facing illustrations. Uncut, loose as issued in original wrappers and slipcase (the latter faded and slightly torn).

Number 150 of 150 copies, signed by the publisher (there were also 20 additional publisher’s copies). Joseph Charles Mardrus was best known as a translator into French of the Arabian Nights. He was born in Cairo of Armenian parents and studied in Lebanon before settling in Paris. As a doctor for the French government, he worked throughout Morocco and the Far East. Carteret IV, 263.

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