Octavo. 75pp. With twelve illustrations by Gilbert James hand-colored and heightened with gold, and printed with blue initials for each stanza. Bound in full green crushed levant by Rivière with inlaid colored calf portrait of the nude Eve standing upon a green morocco ground between a pair of apple trees with the Snake curling up to her left; the whole encircled by a grape and leaf border of inlaid green and brown morocco with gilt outlines, an outer frame of two double-fillets with a quotation from stanza 58: "Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake, For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man, Is blacken'd, Man's Forgiveness give—and take!", repeated on a simpler lower cover with a central panel of a grape leaf. Gilt dentelles, marbled endpaper and pastedowns. A.e.g. Signed in gilt by Rivière & Son on lower front turn-in. Most copies of this edition featuring a figurative binding that have come to market over the last two decades have had some variation on the serpent wrapped around a chalice; some with the quote from stanza 58. We can only trace one copy with this more elaborate treatment that sold in 2012 at Sotheby's. Aside from a few tiny abrasions to lower front turn-in, this is a very fine example of the synthesis of illustration and the art of the bookbinding, housed in its original cloth slipcase.