The song of the cardinal
Margaret Neilson Armstrong American
Author Gene Stratton-Porter
Publisher Bobbs-Merrill Company American
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Margaret Armstrong did not sign all of her works. This unsigned binding is attributed to her because of its similarity with other known Armstrong designs published by Bobbs-Merrill and its distinctive lettering style. Most of Armstrong’s commissions were with three major publishing houses: Bobbs-Merrill, Putnam, and Scribner’s. Armstrong began her career at McClurg in the late 1880s and produced half of her book cover designs–about 270 books–for Scribner’s. In all, she worked for twenty-one different publishers including Dodd, Mead & Company, Harper & Brothers, Houghton Mifflin, James Pott & Co. and Thomas Y. Crowell.
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