one of 1000 copies on papier vélin, from an overall limitation of 1042, two-colour decorative title and additional title, numerous illustrations, many printed in a tone, 128 plates printed recto & verso of 64 leaves, most printed in a tone, contemporary dark blue half morocco by J. Kauffmann, flat spine with an overall design incorporating an onlaid shaped red morocco panel lettered in gilt with the author and title, the area above tooled with small flowerheads and a large flowerspray, the flowerspray tooled onto light brown morocco inlays, the area below the red morocco onlay with the same small flowerheads and a repeat pattern of six flower sprays, the flowerheads tooled onto grey morocco onlays, marbled endpapers, original paper wrappers to design by Louis Rhead bound in at the front & rear, skilful repairs to joints, 4to, Paris, Société Française díitions d'Art, 1898. A delightful and informative fin-de-siecle work concentrating on the way art was being applied to the decoration of the exterior of books of all kinds: from the illustrations on paper wrappers, to the decoration of cloth publishers bindings to the unique work being produced by the fine-art binders of the period.