Cloth binding for Montgomery’s ‘Misunderstood’

Unsigned

1874

Cloth binding

8¼ x 6½ inches

This children’s book is illustrated by George Du Maurier. Its clunky binding, however, has little to recommend it: bound in a dreary brown cloth, it gives little sense of the liveliness of either the text or its visual accompaniment. [Commentary continues below.]

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