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An Autumn Garden designed, written and bound by Claire Lawson-Hall, illustrated in linocuts by Muriel Mallows. The Alembic Press

It's technically been Autumn for a while now, but the weather and the leaves here in Iowa have finally caught up to what the calendar says these last couple of weeks.

This fun little autumnal "Jacob's Ladder" features alternating journal entries through the fall months, and multicolor linocut images of leaves, fruit and other fall themes.

You can learn more about The Alembic Press here and their minis here.

Hope everyone gets a chance to enjoy the Autumnal colors!

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Summer garden.

Text by Claire Lawson-Hall & illustrations by Muriel Mallows

Finals ended last Friday. Graduations have begun and the campus is starting to clear out, which means that semester is over here at the University of Iowa. Congrats to everyone who graduated during this unprecedented year!

To mark the beginning of the summer break, #MiniatureMonday will feature books on summer gardening for the rest of May.

This item, appropriately titled Summer Garden, is made up of one cut folded sheet that is printed on two sides, with two covers. One side of the sheet is printed with text which forms a book when read one way, and the other side is printed with an image of red poppy that can be seen when completely unfolded.

"Text by Claire Lawson-Hall and illustrations by Muriel Mallows."--Colophon. Alembic Press (Oxford, England) Sheet cut to fold concentrically. First and last leaves pasted down. Library has two copies: Copy 1 has no copy number; copy 2 is number 94. --Catalog

Hope everyone has some time to relax and do some fun hobbies (gardening or otherwise) this summer!