166 - [JOU] CARCO, Francis, and CASSOU, Jean. Our Friend Louis Jou. Bibliography by Raymond Cogniat.

[JOU] CARCO, Francis, and CASSOU, Jean. Our Friend Louis Jou. Bibliography by Raymond Cogniat. First edition, illustrated with 70 original woodcuts by Louis Jou. A complete copy on Holland paper, with its separate set of bister-ink prints on Imperial Japan paper, in two beautiful bindings signed and strictly of the period. Paris, M.-P. Trémois, 1929. In-4 (260 x 330 mm), full black morocco, smooth spine decorated with the title in gold lettering, typographic title in a mosaic of red morocco on the front cover, inner border of the same morocco set with a broad gold fillet, gold fillet on the edges and guilloché caps, gilded head, untrimmed, covers and spine preserved. Binding signed by M. Bernard and dated 1931. 116 pages, 70 woodcuts by Louis Jou, including 1 color frontispiece, 24 full-page illustrations (21 in black-and-white and 2 in color), numerous in-text illustrations, headers, initials, and tailpieces. Minor scuffing, rare scattered foxing, some engravings smudged. First edition of this tribute to the work of Louis Jou by his friends Francis Carco and Jean Cassou, illustrated with 70 original woodcuts by the artist, It concludes with an exhaustive bibliography compiled by art critic Raymond Cogniat, indispensable for cataloging Louis Jou’s early works. Limited edition of 525 copies; this is one of 60 numbered copies on Holland paper (No. 46), complete with the set of bistre woodcuts on Imperial Japan paper, bound in a separate volume (black half-maroquin, gilt head, also signed and dated by the bookbinder). [Carteret, IV, 28]. A fine copy, in a signed full binding.