RICHEPIN (Jean). - LEPÈRE (Auguste). Paysages et Coins de Rues... Illustrations in colors drawn and engraved on wood by Auguste Lepère. Preface by Georges Vicaire. Paris, Librairie de la Collection des dix, 1900. - In-8, 240 x 162 : (1 f. of dedication), (2 ff.), XII, 157 pp, (4 ff.), illustrated cover. Jansenist caramel morocco, spine ribbed, crowned gilt on the tail, gilt fillets, gilt dots and mosaic fleurons of art nouveau inspiration on the corners inside, gilt head, untrimmed, cover preserved, lined case. (S. David Rel.) Very beautiful work dedicated to Paris and its suburbs, printed at 250 copies and illustrated with numerous woodcut color compositions by Auguste LEPÈRE (1849-1918), including five full-page ones. One of 200 copies on Arches paper. A very fine copy in a perfectly executed binding by Salvador David, enriched with the subscription brochure and a blank sheet bearing this autograph dispatch signed by the publisher: To the friend Robert de Maussion / memory of the publisher / C. Hérissey Small nick at the tail not serious. Provenance: Robert de Maussion (1863-1940) cavalry colonel, with his armorial bookplate on the first counterfoil and his gilt crowned numeral on the tail.