"Morn by Wood" Antique Folk Art Carved Book on Starry Panel boy-dog Nearly 200 years old

Nearly 200 years old

finely made cinnabar-colored early 20th century Burmese lacquer betel box

almost all of it is readable

and I believe is stuffed with cotton batting

25” each

"Morn by Wood" Antique Folk Art Carved Book on Starry Panel boy-dog Nearly 200 years oldI 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