A wonderfully flamboyant example of high Victorian book production, with eleven pages illuminated by elaborately decorative chromolithographed borders heightened with gilt. Produced for the wife of Charles Bedaux, who made his fortune from developing ideas on scientific management and advising companies on their productivity, similar to Frank Gilbreth's time and motion studies. He entertained lavishly and hosted the wedding of Wallis Simpson and the Duke of Windsor at his château in France where they also spent their honeymoon.

Francis Meynell, founder of the Nonesuch Press, describes in his book My Lives how he turned up at the château unexpectedly while on a bicycling tour but was refused entry because of the said guests. He remarks on Bedaux, "He wanted desperately to perpetuate his name, and set out vainly on many expeditions to little explored lands in the hope of finding an unnamed river or mountain that he could cause to be called after him". Bedaux died in disgrace in prison after the war, having been arrested as a collaborator.