JOU (Louis) - SUARÈS (André). - Lot 127

JOU (Louis) - SUARÈS (André). Musicians. [Paris: Louis Jou, 1931]. - In-4, 277 x 210 : (5 ff. first two blank), 98 pp., (4 ff.), illustrated cover. Black morocco, boards decorated with a large central rectangle of water-green box decorated with four cold fillets, and bordered at the top and bottom with rectangular pieces of orange morocco, smooth spine decorated with the name of the author and artist in gilt letters, and the title in full gilt and mosaic of red morocco, lining and endpapers of decorated black paper, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, bordered slipcase (M. R. Labussière). Edition illustrated with a cover, 3 frontispieces and 4 full-page portraits in several colors (Beethoven, Achille, Baudelaire and Franz Liszt), as well as nearly 100 wood-engraved lettering, headbands, caps and headpieces by Louis JOU (1882-1968), who also printed the book using his own type. Limited edition of 210 copies, this being one of 125 on Arches laid paper, with the publication prospectus. A very fine copy bound by Labussière.