#françois louis schmied

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The City of Troy from the Sea by François-Louis Schmied

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françois louis schmied | baigneurs, vallée du draa, maroc, 1936

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François-Louis Schmied - The Alley in the Night (1938)

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

THÉO SCHMIED

The French painter and illustrator Pierre Brissaud (1885-1964) was commissioned to produce watercolor illustrations for the 1950 Limited Edition Club (LEC) production of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary. The watercolors were turned over to the workshop of master French wood engraver Théo Schmied (1900-1985) to be reproduced for the edition as these remarkable, multi-block color wood engravings.

Schmied's Swiss-born father François-Louis Schmied (1873-1941), also a wood engraver and formally trained in the book arts, established his Paris workshop in 1910 to produce deluxe, illustrated limited editions. Théo Schmied took over the management of his father's workshop beginning in 1924 and inherited the business after his father's death.

This edition was designed by Francis Meynell of the Nonesuch Press in London, with the text composed in Monotype Ehrhardt at the Curwen Press under the supervision of Ernest Ingham and printed letterpress at the Marchbanks Press in New York on specially-made paper bearing the title of the book as watermark by the Curtis Paper Company of Newark, Delaware. The edition is limited to 1500 copies signed by Pierre Brissaud.

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Julius Caesar & An Imperial Eagle, illustrations by François-Louis Schmied for Les Douze Césars (The Twelve Caesars) by Suetonius (1928 edition)

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Illustrations of Homer's Odyssey by François-Louis Schmied.

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DAPHNE by Alfred de Vigny. (Paris: F-L Schmied, 1924) Designed and illustrated with 50 wood engravings by François-Louis Schmied. Art binding by Devauchelle .

Written in 1837 but not published until 1912, this novel is the most philosophical of the French Romantic poet’s work. It examines the role of the artist in society.

Midnight blue crushed Morocco inlaid and gilt in an Art Deco design inspired by Schmied. Covers have gold and silver geometric tooling, with metallic and tan morocco inlays. The engravings are enhanced with silver and gold.

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François-Louis Schmied’s illustrations for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe‘s Faust.

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François-Louis Schmied. The Night, The Theatre, Zodiaque, Christ is Resurrected, Abstraction, A Trace of Fire Trails Behind Him, You Hear Columns Explode, The Horse Charge, Dungeon, She is Saved! Illustrations for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust. 1938.

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1922 George Barbier, plate depicting two figures and a dog, engraved by François Louis Schmied and printed by Pierre Bouchet, in Albert Flament, Personnages de comédie (Paris: Jules Meynial, 1922). Reproduced from the original in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Elisha Whittelsey Collection, Department of Drawings and Prints. 

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The Flaming Torch of Prometheus by François-Louis Schmied

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GZ Giuseppe Zanasi

Opere 1997-2009

scritti di Giovanni Grasso-Fravega, Peter Weiermair, Mauro Nasti, Armando Torno, Antonio Faeti

Zanasi Bologna, 2009, 94 pagine, 23,4x32,5cm, brossura editoriale con sovraccoperta illustrata da un labirinto in oro e le iniziali GZ

euro 40,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

Per gusto ed eleganza è stato il più ‘parigino’ dei nostri librai antiquari. La sua prematura scomparsa ci ha privato non solo di un libraio di indiscusso fascino e competenza, ma pure di un ideatore di libri, anche per la cura e la passione di affidare i grandi classici che amava alla ‘rilettura’ di artisti come Folon, Roberto Innocenti, Giovanni Grasso-Fravega o Antonio Saliola, e alla maestria di rilegatori d’alta gamma, come il riminese Luigi Castiglioni «il nostro unico vero legatore italiano». Gli ultimi due volumi da lui realizzati, ad esempio, Le Petit Chaperon Rouge e il Peter Pan, pubblicato poco prima della morte, resteranno negli annali dei grandi illustrati italiani del secondo Novecento. Perfino i suoi cataloghi di vendita erano rari, preziosi e ricercati: in essi instillava la medesima cura, passione e ricercatezza che amava infondere nei grandi libri che pubblicava, in una strana e fascinosa commistione tra libreria antiquaria, editoria, ideazione di libri, promozione culturale, bibliografia e bibliofilia (memorabili rimangono i cataloghi antiquari di erotica, di gastronomia e sui grandi illustrati Art Nouveau e Art Déco, primo fra tutti l’amato François-Louis Schmied). Negli ultimi anni, però, confidava agli intimi che il mondo dell’antiquariato lo aveva stancato preferendo, alla ricerca dei grandi libri, la realizzazione di quelli che maggiormente amava lui, per condividerli con pochi amici.

19/12/23

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A Monday Miscellany of Links Pt. XVIII

Troy under Siege by François-Louis Schmied Play your PCs like they’re stolen cars. Die horribly. Roll up a new one. — Enthusiastic Skeleton Boys Blog Good Stuff TTRPGs for Trans Rights – West Virginia (itch.io) – 529 TTRPG items for a good cause Free Stuff Warlock Class for OSR (PWYW on drivethrurpg) Muster: a primer for War (PWYW on drivethrurpg) Random Tables (Weird) Fantasy world…

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Le Livre de la Jungle par Rudyard Kipling

1919

Source : Swanngalleries

Artist : Paul Jouve & François Louis Schmied

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François Louis Schmied: Bañistas (1938)