SCHMIED (François-Louis) - SUETONE. The Twelve Caesars. Unpublished translation by Joseph Estève. Preface by Louis Barthou. Paris: F.-L. Schmied, 1928. - In-8, 282x188: frontispiece, (7 ff. 3 first blanks), 6 pp., (2 ff.), CCCXXVI pp., (6 ff. 2 last blanks), 12 plates, printed cover. Red morocco, wide band of garnet morocco running horizontally across the center of the boards and spine, partly surmounted by six large circles of black morocco, each with the name of an emperor in cold, smooth spine decorated in the center with a vertical band of black morocco, passing over the wide band of garnet morocco, gilt marbled paper lining and endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, case (H. R. Labussière). Edition entirely designed and illustrated by François-Louis SCHMIED (1873-1941), with a frontispiece, 12 portraits, 9 culs-de-lampe and a full-page composition, wood-engraved under the direction of his son Théo Schmied. The hors-texts bear the artist's printed signature. Edition of 175 copies on Arches vellum, signed by François-Louis Schmied at the justification. A very fine copy in contemporary binding. Provenance: ex-libris AG.