Embossed with gold on spine: SCRAP / BOOK; stamped in purple ink, inside front cover, upper left: PATENT / 281,657
Inscribed in pen and black ink, on sheet glued on outside cover, center: EVOLUTION; lower right: L.T. Ives / Percy Ives; lower left: October 1883: in pencil, inside back cover, upper right: #32020 / WS / 1.50