Anonymous binding for Wilkie Collins’s ‘The Woman in White’ (original) (raw)

Cloth binding for Collins’s ‘The Woman in White’

Unsigned

1875

Cloth binding

7¾ x 5¼ inches

Another anonymous cover which was reused for several of Chatto and Windus’s reprints of popular contemporary fiction. These were superior to parallel imprints in the form of yellow-backs and, because of their uniform binding, could form a respectable collection on the bookshelves. [Commentary continues below.]

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