SCHMIED (François-Louis) - KIPLING (Rudyard). Kim. Translated by Louis Fabulet and Ch. Fountaine-Walker. Lausanne : Gonin et Cie, [1930]. - 2 volumes in-4, 308 x 250 : frontispiece, 267 pp, (2 ff. last blank), 8 plates, illustrated cover ; 263 pp, (4 ff. first and last blank), 6 plates, illustrated cover. Garnet half-chagrin with corners, gilt fillets, spine ribbed, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (period binding). Brilliant edition printed at 160 copies on japanese paper, illustrated with 58 superb compositions in colors by François-Louis SCHMIED (1873-1941), including 1 frontispiece, 15 headpieces, 15 lettrines, 11 culs-de-lampe, 1 vignette for the colophon and 15 plates. Copy in a modest contemporary binding. Spine faded, small rubs from use, epidermis on the upper corner of the first cover of the second volume.