DAUDET (Alphonse). The small parish. Married manners. Paris : Alphonse Lemerre, 1895. - In-8, 197 x 134 : (2 ff.), 452 pp. (2 ff. last blank), printed cover. Dark green jansenist morocco, spine ribbed, cold fillet inside, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved (P. L. Martin). First edition of this work in which Daudet was inspired by the history of the chapel Sainte-Hélène, which can still be seen near his house in rue Alphonse Daudet in Draveil-Champrosay in the Essonne. One of the fifty copies on China paper numbered and initialed by the publisher. Beautiful copy bound by Pierre-Lucien Martin. Spine uniformly faded.