A miniature book illustrated on the outside, this new creation features a box design inspired by the author’s description of his magical gift--a lifelike mechanical butterfly.

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BOUND IN BLUE CLOTH WITH MARBLED END-PAPERS BY ANN MUIR

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FELT-LINED WOOD BOX WITH PEARL INLAY

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POP-UP, HAND-PAINTED IRIDESCENT BUTTERFLY

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LIMITED EDITION

(10 COPIES)

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"He produced, as he spoke, what seemed a jewel box. It was carved richly out of ebony by his own hand, and inlaid with a fanciful tracery of pearl, representing a boy in pursuit of a butterfly, which, elsewhere, had become a winged spirit, and was flying heavenward; while the boy, or youth, had found such efficacy in his strong desire that he ascended from earth to cloud, and from cloud to celestial atmosphere, to win the beautiful."

                                                      -Hawthorne

THE ARTIST OF THE BEAUTIFUL

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE