MOREAU (Hégésippe). Little tales to my sister. Paris : Édouard Pelletan, 1896. - Large in-8, 271 x 177 : (4 ff. first blank), 195 pp. (4 ff. last blank), printed cover. Jansenist midnight blue morocco, spine ribbed, midnight blue morocco lining decorated with a rich gilt framing composed of straight and curved fillets and dotted lines, a floral scroll, and rocaille motifs, grey moiré silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges, cover preserved, slipcase (Noulhac). One of the first publications of Édouard Pelletan, decorated with sixty-two compositions by the Swiss painter and illustrator Louis DUNKI (1856-1915) engraved on wood by Clément-Édouard Bellenger (1851-1898), of which eight are full page. It was printed at 350 copies. ONE OF 25 ON IMPERIAL MANUFACTURING JAPAN, with a double separate edition on old japan and on chine of all the engravings. This one was specially printed for Mr. Ferdinand Pradeau. Beautiful copy in morocco lined by Noulhac. Spine very slightly faded.