Unpaginated, (1¼" thick) printed on thin-stock. 5x3, bound in contemporary full red morocco, decoratively tooled and ruled in gilt, four gilt compartments on gilt-lettered spine, gilt-vignettes on wide raised bands, later blue-green endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt; fore-edge painting showing a view of Oxford.

Fore-edge of Oxford looking in over the water, with boats and trees seen in the fore-ground and back-ground.