SCHMIED (François-Louis) - MARDRUS (Joseph Charles). Creation. The first three books of Genesis followed by the Adamic genealogy. Literal translation of Semitic texts by Dr. J.-C. Mardrus. Preface by Professor H. Roger. Paris: Schmied, 1928. - In-4, 336 x 252: (4 ff. 2 first blanks), 16, LXXXIV pp., (5 ff. 2 last blanks), illustrated cover. Brown box, first plate decorated with a family tree whose branches are composed of rounded ivory boxes, on which appear the names in golden capitals of 13 characters from Adam to Iaphath, smooth spine, brown box-edged lining, brown suede endpapers, golden slices on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, back shirt and brown box-edged strips, case (M .J. Guian-Milliaud 2012 - C. Ribal). First edition of Dr. Mardrus' translation, superbly illustrated with 42 colour woodcut compositions by François-Louis SCHMIED (1873-1941), 12 of which are full-page, bearing the artist's printed signature. Limited edition of 195 copies, including 20 off-the-shelf, on Arches wove paper, signed by Schmied at the justification. Copy enriched with a black follow-on copy of all the engravings, including the ornaments, numbered 52 and signed by the artist on the first page. Very nice copy bound by Marie-José Guian for her personal account. She reproduced on the first plate the illustration of the twelfth plate. Plates III, VII and X, corresponding to pages XI-XII, XXIX-XXX and LIX-LX, have been bound in the Preface. Discharge of some engravings, no gravity.