"Designed by William Hary Rogers. Bevelled boards. Gilt edges. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Binder's ticket on lower pastedown: "/Bound by/ W. Bone & Son./ 76, Fleet St./ London E.C./" The lower cover is blocked in blind, with seven fillets on the borders, one thick in the middle of six thin. A cross flory is blocked on the centre. The cross has a quartefoil centre. The upper cover is fully blocked in gold and relief. A fillet is blocked on the border, and another fillet blocked in gold has a repeating pattern of four squares blocked in relief within it. A chequerboard pattern is blocked on the corners in relief and in gold. Between these, there are four panels of thin flower tracery at the head, tail, and the two sides. The central rectangle has a gold fillet border; inside is a repeat of the chequerboard pattern at the top and the bottom of the rectangle. A putti's head and wings hover above the title: "/Christian/ Lyrics./", which are blocked in gold in gothic letters. Signed "WHR" in gold as a monogram underneath the title. The spine is fully blocked in gold and relief. At the head and at the tail, a single gold fillet and a "dog tooth" fillet are blocked in gold. A single fillet is blocked on the perimeter. A repeating "four squares" pattern is blocked in relief within this fillet. Just inside this, another single thin gold fillet is blocked on the perimeter. A pattern of curling stems and leaves is blocked in gold at the inner head and at the inner tail. On the centre of the spine, a single gold fillet with "dog tooth" decoration forms a cartouche. The words: "/Christian Lyrics/ are blocked in gold in gothic letters within the cartouche.

Another copy of this work is at BL C.128.f.5. (formerly shelved at 11602.f.5.) Green sand sand-grain cloth. The same design as for BL 1570/37is blocked on the covers and on the spine."

Ball, Douglas. Victorian publishers' bindings / (London : Library Association, c1985.) p.157 Pantazzi, Sybille. Four Designers of English Publishers' Bindings, 1850-1880 and Their Signatures. [Off-print from Bibliographical Society of America vol.55] Pantazzi 4D no. XIV Edmund M.B. King, The Book Cover Designs of William Harry Rogers, in For the love of the binding. Studies in bookbinding history presented to Mirjam Foot, p.320. Blog http://19thcenturyartistsmonograms.blogspot.co.uk/