Date from title page decorated with flourishes in ink which reads: His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, November 20th, 1767 George IV created Prince of Wales on Aug. 17th, five days after birth on Aug. 12, 1762 Pages numbered 1-18 in pencil Copybook presents practice words for each letter of the alphabet except E-H and V, and sentences for each letter except G, I, O, Q, and U-Z Initial letter and sentence written in another hand as an example for copying The name "George" concludes each of the sentence pages beginning with "Knowledge..." Provenance statement in pencil inside front cover: from Dawson Turner's sale of MSS autographs June 1859
Italian Title page written and decorated in gold with a large miniature in blue, white and gold showing the newborn Prince of Tuscany lying on a bed within the signs of the zodiac. Headings of the prefatory pages in gold Initial letter of each scene and the Choro in gold Dedication to the grand duke of Tuscany, Frederick II, dated October 15, 1642 Bound in contemporary vellum, tooled in gold with the coat of arms of the Medici family on both covers