LOUŸS (Pierre) - CARLÈGLE (Charles-Émile). The Adventures of King Pausole. Paris : Modern-Bibliothèque, Arthème Fayard, [1908]. - In-8, 242 x 171 : 126 pp. illustrated cover. Red half cloth, spine smoothly decorated, untrimmed, cover preserved (period binding). First edition illustrated with numerous black compositions in the text and on the full page by Charles-Émile CARLÈGLE (1877-1937). Copy enriched with a L.A.S. from Pierre Louÿs addressed to Louis Loviot, Thursday (December 22, 1910), 1 1/2 page in-12, with the envelope, glued on the first endpaper, as well as 7 black or coloured photocopies, mounted or glued, of Carlègle's compositions taken from the 1924 edition, and the programme of Albert Willemetz's operetta after Pierre Louÿs's novel played in December 1930 at the Bouffes-parisiens. Spine slightly soiled. Also included : - Les Aventures du roi Pausole. Paris : Le Livre du bibliophile, G. & R. Briffaut, [1924]. - Large in-8, 275 x 188 : (6 ff.), 300 pp, (2 ff.), illustrated cover. Green half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, smooth spine decorated with gilt and mosaic motifs, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (S. David). Edition of 1000 copies, illustrated with 90 colour compositions by Charles-Émile CARLÈGLE (1877-1937), including 3 on the cover, one on the frontispiece, one on the title, one full page and 84 in the text. These illustrations are different from those made by the same artist for the 1908 edition. One of 925 copies on van Gelder Zonen laid paper (no. 912), very well bound by David, enriched with an original unsigned drawing by the artist of a nude woman being offered flowers by three children, and a hand watercoloured proof of the illustration on page 131 . Provenance: Adrien Lachenal, with bookplate.