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Each of the five panels folds at the top and bottom to create three illustrations. This book form, called “metamorphosis,” was so popular that thirty-nine editions were printed in America before 1820. Other manuscript copies exist, but all copies are unique.
You can see this book in person in our current exhibition, The Living Book: New Perspectives on From and Function on display through January 5th, 2018.
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