Notebook, greenish marbled paper boards, three-quarter-bound in dark blue morocco; 25 × 21 cm; marbled endpapers, and edges; 144 original leaves (not including endpapers), of which Ruskin numbered only pp. 1-57 (with p. 47 given twice, but, in compensation, no p. 48). A later hand numbered the leaves but included in this numbering the leaves of a dismembered copybook that was later tipped in to the back of MS VII (see below), bringing the total to 162 leaves. The year 1830 is visible in the watermark.