SCHMIED (François-Louis) - SUÉTONE. The Twelve Caesars. Unpublished translation by Joseph Estève. Preface by Louis Barthou. Paris: F.-L. Schmied, 1928. - In-8, 280 x 209: frontispiece, (4 ff.), 6 pp., (2 ff.), CCCXXVI pp., (5 ff. last blank), 12 plates, printed cover. Brown morocco, first dish decorated with gold fillets and four stripes of shagreen, two horizontal and two diagonal, the latter two recessed, smooth back, gold fillets framed on the inside, linings and endpapers of raw, untrimmed suede, cover and back preserved (M. J. Guian-Milliaud - C. Ribal). Edition entirely designed and illustrated by François-Louis SCHMIED (1873-1941), decorated with a frontispiece, 12 portraits, 9 culs-de-lampe and a full-page composition, woodcut under the direction of his son Theo Schmied. Pages LXXXI to LXXXVIII were mistakenly linked between CIV and CV pages. The off-texts bear the printed signature of the artist. Edition of 175 copies on Arches wove paper signed by François-Louis Schmied at the justification. Very nice copy, fully tabbed, very well bound by Marie-Josée Guian for her personal account.