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misˈbound, ppl. a. [f. mis-1 2 + bound ppl. a.2 6.] Of a book: badly or wrongly bound.
1802D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 5 Feb. (1941) I. 107 The Chaucer not only misbound but a leaf or two wanting. 1889Skeat Barbour's Bruce Pref. p. lxvii, The Bodleian copy is quite perfect; it is only misbound. 1952J. Carter ABC for Bk.-Collectors 120 When a leaf or leaves, or an entire gathering, has been wrongly folded or misplaced by the binder, it is called misbound. Provided that nothing is missing, and that the amount of matter misbound is not too great or its misplacing too glaring, collectors commonly take a more charitable view of the result than readers. |