[MOUTHS (Paul)] - TERRASSE (Charles). Paul Jouve. Paris: Livre de Plantin, 1948. - In-4, 276 x 225 : (5 ff.), 183 pp., illustrated cover. Dark green chagrin, flats decorated with a golden butterfly as well as golden wavy and curved nets cold-framed with vegetation, spine decorated in the centre with a composition in relief representing an elephant on the front with ears drawn in black protruding from the flats, dark green calf lining framed with green chagrin decorated with golden nets, green calf guards decorated with cold-framed net, double guards, golden head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, case (J.-M. Granier). Original edition of 502 copies, plus a few copies out of print, of this monograph dedicated to the life and work of Paul JOUVE (1878-1973). It includes numerous reproductions of works of the artist, as well as 10 original lithographs, in black and in colour, including 3 on double page. One of the few non-commercial copies intended for the collaborators and the artist, signed by André Guillaud, director of the Société des Éditions du Livre de Plantin. A copy in double binding signed J.-M. Granier, with some defects of execution. Spine entirely faded, a few small epiderminations at one corner of the second cover, worm work on the first lining and the first guard.