Cloth binding

John Leighton

[1856]

Red cloth with a gilt design

6¾ x 5 inches

This bizarrely entitled juvenile is enhanced by one of Leighton’s earliest bindings. The gilt design punningly transforms the fern into a quill. The front cover is signed in Leighton’s monogram of the fifties, with the long stroke of the ‘L’ crossing the upstroke of the ‘J’.

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