"Morn by Wood" Antique Folk Art Carved Book on Starry Panel boy-dog and around her waist

and around her waist

25” each

Nearly 200 years old

I love how simple and direct it is

"Morn by Wood" Antique Folk Art Carved Book on Starry Panel boy-dog and around her waistI 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