"Bevelled boards. Gilt edges. Light yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Binder's ticket on lower pastedown: "/Bound by/ Bone & Son./ 76 Fleet St./ London E.C./" The lower cover is blocked in blind, with fillets blocked on the borders. The central vignette is blocked in blind, showing flower tracery. Signed "WHR" in blind as a monogram at the base of the vignette. The upper cover is blocked in gold. There are two fillets blocked on the outer border, with two more fillets and leaf tracery at the corners of the inner border. The central mandorla is formed by four leaf repeating border blocked between two fillets. The mandorla is surrounded by passion plant leaves and flowers. Within the mandora, inside a rectangle and an inner mandorle, the words: "/Heber's/ Hymns/ Illustrated/" are blocked in gold in hatched gold gothic capitals. Signed "W" at the base of the mandorla. The spine is fully blocked in gold. Two fillets and a border are blocked around the perimeter. There are square gold lettering-pieces blocked at the head and at the tail. The words: "London S.Low & Co." are blocked in relief within a square gold lettering-piece at the base. The title words: "/Heber's Hymns/" are blocked in hatched gold gothic capitals along the spine, within a cartouche, which has diamond straps at each end. There is decoration blocked in relief within gold panels at head and at tail of the cartouche".

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. XII.