As explained in  Provenance  above, Wedderburn arranged to have the diary bound after its separation from MS X. The binding is red buckram, like those for manuscripts that formed lot 27 in Sotheby Cat. 1931; lettered in gilt  Ruskin MS.--Tour to the Lakes, 1830 ; 19 × 23 cm. The original two handmade paper books consist, respectively, of 44 pp., watermarked  G. Wilmot / 1830,  and impressed with stationer’s stamp of a crown, 18.5 × 22.5 cm; and of 20 pp., watermarked  I & J Dewdney / 1826,  of slightly varying size 20-20.5 × 15.5-16.5 cm. Burd also supplies a description in TLC, 3.
	The leaves donated to the Coniston Museum are comprised in the outside folded sheet of the second, smaller book. As Burd remarks, since Collingwood’s transcript of these leaves was bound along with the original manuscript, the binding must have been done between August 1901, when the Coniston Museum opened and Joan Severn presumably donated the leaves, and 1903, when the binding is mentioned in the second volume of the Library Edition.
	See the introduction to TLC for Burd and Dearden’s analysis of the handwritings of John Ruskin and Mary Richardson, who shared in the composition; of the ordering of the contents; and of the circumstances under which the diary was written.