Dante Gabriel Rossetti designed this binding, with a gilt pattern on blue linen. The flower-and-trellis design repeats on the endpapers. Rossetti was a Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter. He also designed covers for books by his siblings, Christina Rossetti and William Michael Rossetti.
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