862pp. This copy in a unique embroidered binding on thin vellum over boards, featuring five posies in four colors. Executed by the Royal School of Art Needlework, the book marks a transition in the history of the technique, which had flourished as a deluxe practice in the 17th and 18th centuries and here receives a treatment suited to 20th-century modernity. The School was founded in 1872 by Lady Victoria Welby, with Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Queen Victoria's third daughter, as inaugural president. William Morris and many in his circle aided the School's established, as did its first patron: Queen Victoria herself. "Art" was dropped from the name in 1922; the dating of the present binding thus must be contemporaneous of the c. 1900 date of the book's publication.

Complete with frontispiece. Very nicely and legibly printed on India tissue, with rounded corners. Minimal rubbing to spine; scattered light spotting, especially to lower cover, else nearly fine. A.e.g.