JOU (Louis) - FRANCE (Anatole). L'Île des pingouins. Paris: Lapina, 1926. - 2 volumes in-4, 310x206: (4 ff. first 2 blank), X, 167 pp. (5 ff. last 2 blank), 7 plates, printed cover; (3 blank ff.), pp. (169)-379, (7 ff. last 3 blank), 5 plates, printed cover. Maroquin burgundy, boards beautifully decorated with a frame of straight and curved gilded fillets and a lobed grey morocco scroll at the corners, and a diamond-shaped composition with curved edges in the center, composed of white and grey morocco scrolls and gilded fillets, spine decorated in the same spirit, burgundy morocco framing inside, decorated with 8 gilded fillets, blue moiré silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilded edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, burgundy morocco spine and cover bands, case (Semet et Plumelle). A charming edition of 535 copies, illustrated with 131 colored woodcuts in the text and 20 original drypoints, including 12 hors texte and 8 full-page, by Louis JOU (1882-1968). A precious copy, ONE OF THE FIRST 10 ON OLD JAPAN, containing two original watercolors used for the illustration, a crossed-out copper, two additional states of the drypoints, a suite of crossed-out copperplates and a complete suite of colored woodcuts. All suites are here on japon. The two drawings are those used to illustrate the headband on page 15 and the cul-de-lampe on page 36 in the first volume. The crossed-out copperplate, incorporated in the first cover of the first slipcase, is the one on page 223 of the second volume. A very fine copy in an elegant mosaic binding by Semet et Plumelle. Lining and slipcase of first volume fragile. Cover of second volume missing.