MORIN (Louis). The Parisian Sundays. Notes of a decadent. Paris : Librairie L. Conquet, 1898. - In-8, 258 x 169 : frontispiece, (3 ff.), I, 213 pp., (1 f.), printed cover. Red morocco, boards decorated with an outer frame of three gilt fillets and an inner frame composed of straight and curved fillets intertwined, around which wraps a long branch of leaves and flowers, spine ribbed decorated in the same spirit, red morocco framing inside, decorated with gilt fillets and leaves, blue morocco lining, red moiré silk endpapers, double guard, gilt edges, cover and spine preserved, case (M. Lortic). First edition dedicated to Georges Montorgueil, printed at 250 numbered copies on vélin du Marais. The illustration is composed of 41 original etchings by Auguste LEPÈRE (1849-1918), including a frontispiece, 20 chapter heads and 20 culs-de-lampe. In addition, there are 20 woodcut lettering in bistre. This publication was the last one of Léon Conquet who did not see it published since he died on December 17, 1897. The copies are consecutively numbered and initialed by his widow. It is also one of the best illustrations of Auguste Lepère and the first book he decorated with original etchings. Precious copy in morocco lined by Marcelin Lortic. It was specially printed for the famous bookseller and bibliophile Lucien Gougy (1863-1931) and includes two states of the etchings as well as a suite of 8 refused plates. A very well preserved copy. Provenance: Lucien Gougy (does not appear in the sale catalogs of his library). - Bernard Le Dosseur (1905-1968), pharmacist and bibliophile, with ex-libris. - Bookplate with the motto "Nec tu semper eris" and the initials CG followed by 1933 on the license plate of a vehicle.