Cretté (Georges, binder) & Louis Jou, designer.- Ronsard (Pierre de) Sonnets pour Hélène, number 21 of 225 copies on papier vergé, from an edition limited to 258, designed and printed in red & black by Louis Jou with woodcut title-vignette portrait, decorations and initials throughout, bound in vellum, by Georges Cretté hand-painted by Jou in red, black and gilt, title on upper cover and author's name on lower in red and black with border and swirls of vine leaves in gilt, spine titled in black, initialled by the artist on lower cover, yapp edges, t.e.g., others uncut, original wrappers printed in orange and black bound in, T.L.s. from the American bookseller W. Thomas Taylor concerning the binding loosely inserted, original board slip-case (slightly rubbed), small folio, Paris, Les Livres de Louis Jou, [1927]. ⁂ A typically handsome production by Louis Jou, foregoing illustration and relying solely on type and ornament, and in a wonderful decorated binding. In his letter Taylor speculates that the binding was a collaboration between Cretté & Jou with the application of the actual design being undertaken by Jou himself. As evidence of this another copy was sold in the library of Jan van der Marck in 2009 in an almost identical binding, decorated by Jou although the actual binding was executed by Adrien Lavaux.
Cretté (Georges, binder) & Louis Jou, designer.- Ronsard (Pierre de) Sonnets pour Hélène, number 21 of 225 copies on papier vergé, from an edition limited to 258, designed and printed in red & black by Louis Jou with woodcut title-vignette portrait, decorations and initials throughout, bound in vellum, by Georges Cretté hand-painted by Jou in red, black and gilt, title on upper cover and author's name on lower in red and black with border and swirls of vine leaves in gilt, spine titled in black, initialled by the artist on lower cover, yapp edges, t.e.g., others uncut, original wrappers printed in orange and black bound in, T.L.s. from the American bookseller W. Thomas Taylor concerning the binding loosely inserted, original board slip-case (slightly rubbed), small folio, Paris, Les Livres de Louis Jou, [1927]. ⁂ A typically handsome production by Louis Jou, foregoing illustration and relying solely on type and ornament, and in a wonderful decorated binding. In his letter Taylor speculates that the binding was a collaboration between Cretté & Jou with the application of the actual design being undertaken by Jou himself. As evidence of this another copy was sold in the library of Jan van der Marck in 2009 in an almost identical binding, decorated by Jou although the actual binding was executed by Adrien Lavaux.
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