Annie Smith MacDonald (née Johnston) (20 November 1849 to 21 October 1924) was an artistic bookbinder from Scotland, active in the 1890s and the early 20th century.
[1] She was raised in Lanark and Glasgow, and in 1880 married William MacDonald, an Edinburgh businessman and secretary of the Scottish Metropolitan Life Assurance Company and later Carrick Pursuivant and Albany Herald.
There, she honed her skills and worked with the Edinburgh Social Union, of which she was a member, to institute a series of bookbinding classes led by employees of the Constable firm.
"[4] She became a leading member in a group of Edinburgh women binders (including Jessie MacGibbon, Mrs. Douglas MacLagan, Jean Pagin, and Phoebe Anna Traquair).
[5] Her medievalist bindings began to gain attention, and were selected along with others from her Edinburgh group for display in the Women's Work section of the Victorian Era Exhibition at Earl's Court, London in 1897.