Red morocco over thin cardboard, gilt tooled beaded border on covers; smooth spine with ample gilding (lines and plumes, or perhaps corn ears). Spine title reads NACRE
. The current shelfmark glued on spine paper label at tail. Two coloured paper bifolia serve as endleaves at front and end: the blue ones are pasted onto a guard of white paper, whereas the pink ones are used as pastedowns and are pasted onto the blue.
ad optimorum exemplarium fidem scripsit. His name is present in the membership record for
Östgöta nationin the year
A guard precedes the first bifolium (i.e. the title leaves), and another guard follows after the end of the textblock, both pasted onto the closest page and used in the endleaf construction; cf. binding description.
The half title page, the title vignette at the beginning of the text, and the vignette at the end of the text are penflourished with finely drawn geometrical and flowery designs, among which the title,
09and the initials
CWEare present on the title page.