In the time since Collingwood described the manuscript, its  reddish marbled paper covers  have disappeared, replaced by a dark red leather or roan binding, 32.5 × 11.5 cm, with  Ruskin MS.--Poems  impressed in gilt on the spine and cover. Arrangements for this binding would have been made by Alexander Wedderburn, since the  limp roan  described in Sotheby Cat. 1931 and the  red leather  mentioned in Goodspeed, Cat., must refer to the same binding. The original notebook was purchased, not handmade, with marbled edges and pre-ruled paper, watermarked  J Wh[at(?)]man 1829.