Octavo. 51pp with twice as many added plates, most drawn from the original publication but some supplemented, a contribution arguably crucial to the book's aim of surveying the history of art bookbinding in the West. The edition was produced for the Art Loan Exhibition in April 1895, held at Trinity Chapel on Fourth Avenue for the benefit of the Chapel at Saint Gabriel's in Peekskill, New York. This copy bound by Salvatore David (1859-1929), whose father, Bernard, had himself been a binder and trained under Leon Gruel. David's design here mimics that demonstrated as the very first binding example (certainly added): full black morocco over boards with interlocking leather onlays of green, yellow, tan, and maroon, all edged in gilt. Gilt rules also to edges and to doublures, themselves of red morocco and with additions of gilt pointille and florals. Spine in six compartments with maroon onlays and gilt rules and titling. Marbled paper flyleaves backed in red silk. Mild rubs to edges and corners, else near fine. A binding perfectly suited to its book, and exceptional for its additions. A.e.g. Bookplate of socialite and binding collector Jean Irvine Struthers to front flyleaf.