File:"Many happy returns of the day!" A birth-day book. New edition, with numerous additional engravings ... - Upper cover and spine (12808g23).jpg

Designed by William Harry Rogers. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Binder's ticket on lower pastedown: "/Bound by/ W. Bone and Son./ 76 Fleet St./ London E.C./" The lower cover is blocked in blind with four fillets on the borders. The upper cover is blocked in gold and black. Two fillets on the borders are blocked in black. On the upper cover, there is a tracery of plant leaves and branches in black to the right; in gold to the left. The title: "/[M]any happy/ [R]eturns of the day/" are blocked in relief on green onlays (probably paper) within elongated rectangular gold lettering-pieces. The capital letters "m" and "R" are blocked in gold within red onlays (probably paper), which have a single gold fillet on their borders. Signed "WHR" in black as a monogram near to the base of the design on the upper cover. The spine is blocked in gold and in black. From the head downwards, the decoration is: a single black fillet across the spine; The words: "/ Many/ Happy/ Returns/ of the/ Day:/" are blocked in gold in gothic letters, which are surrounded by leaf and stem decoration blocked in black; The words: "/ Charles & Mary/ Cowden Clarke/" are blocked in relief within a rectangular gold lettering-piece, which has a single gold fillet blocked on its borders; more plant and leaf decoration blocked in gold and in black; signed "WHR" in black as a monogram on the left hand side of the spine near the tail; a gold fillet; the words: "/Lockwood & Co/" are blocked in gold in gothic letters; a gild fillet; a black fillet.

Ball, Douglas. Victorian publishers' bindings / (London : Library Association, c1985.) p. 157.