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Morin, Louis. Lepère, Auguste. Les dimanches parisiens. Notes d’un décadent. Quarante et une eaux-fortes originales de A. Lepère.

With engr. frontispiece and 40 engr. vignettes in the text by Auguste Lepère plus 20 initials printed in colour. Title leaf, 2 leaves, 213, (3) pp. Small 4to. Somewhat later private green grained half morocco over five raised bands, top edge gilt. – Paris, L. Conquet, 1898.

Edition originale. Limited to 250 numbered copies on vélin du Marais, signed in the impressum by the widow of Morin „Vve L. M.“. Last work of Louis Morin, famous illustrator of the „Carnavals parisiens“ (1898), congeniously illustrated after his dead by Auguste Lepère (1849–1918). – Carteret IV, 294 (“Très cotée“); Thieme/Becker XXIII, 98. – Fine copy in a handsome binding by Günther & Baumann, Zurich. – Best.-Nr. 17868