SCHMIED (François-Louis) - KIPLING (Rudyard). Kim. Lausanne: Gonin et Cie, [1930]. - 2 volumes in-4, 306 x 246: frontispiece, 267 pp., (2 ff. last blank), 16 plates, illustrated cover; 263 pp., (3 ff. last blank), 13 plates, illustrated cover. White morocco, flats and spine decorated with wide horizontal and vertical intersecting gold stripes and fillets, smooth spine, white morocco frame inside decorated with gold fillets, dark brown silk lining, red moiré silk endpapers, gold edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, back shirt with dark brown box cover and stripes, case (F.-L. Schmied - G. Cretté succ. de Marius Michel). Brilliant edition of 160 copies on Japanese paper, illustrated with 57 superb colour compositions by François-Louis SCHMIED (1873-1941), including 1 frontispiece, 15 chapter headings, 15 letterheads, 11 culs-de-lampe, 1 colophon vignette and 14 plates. The off-texts and chapter headings bear the artist's printed signature . One of the 20 off-the-shelf copies, signed by the publisher, this one enriched with the 15 plates of the Suite pour Kim, as well as a full-colour suite on japanese of the 30 off-texts and the 15 chapter headings. There are two frontispiece events and two penultimate board states in this sequel. All proofs bear the artist's printed signature . Superb binding made by Cretté, with a decoration designed by François-Louis Schmied. The original model of this decoration was bound at the end of the second volume. Very well preserved copy. Darkened backs . Provenance: Ex-libris LV.