"Morn by Wood" Antique Folk Art Carved Book on Starry Panel st. crispin 8 full-color plates and 8

8 full-color plates and 8 black and white

The strains decay

and I love him all the more for the wear

who we knew from the other drawings was very interested in the fashions of the day

with a super choice of words and phrases repeated over and over: "bankrupt in debt beyond the power of payment"

"Morn by Wood" Antique Folk Art Carved Book on Starry Panel st. crispin 8 full-color plates and 8I love carved books of all sorts, and this one, found in Pennsylvania, is both beautiful and curious. Into the spine is carved "Morn by Wood", the "Wood" I have to think a playful reference to the material from which the book was carved. And then on the face of it garlands and stars carved all around the title, highlighted in gold paint , as are the edges of the pages, and feeling about as optimistic as the coming dawn, while at the same time perhaps