{"product_id":"9781429935951","title":"Aesop's Mirror: A Love Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Everything I needed to know about Fox and Grapes mirror, I knew the moment I first saw it\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat antiques restorer Maryalice Huggins knew when she stumbled across the mirror at a country auction in Rhode Island was this: She was besotted. Rococo and huge (more than eight feet tall), the mirror was one of the most unusual objects she had ever seen. Huggins had to have it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe frame's elaborate carvings were almost identical to a famous eighteenth-century design. Could this be eighteenth-century American? That would make it rare indeed. But in the rarefied world of American antiques, an object is not significant unless you can prove where it's from. Huggins set out to trace the origins of her magnificent mirror.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFueled with the delightfully obsessive spirit of Susan Orlean's \u003ci\u003eThe Orchid Thief\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAesop's Mirror \u003c\/i\u003efollows Huggins on her quest as she goes up against the leading lights of the very male world of high-end antiques and dives into the historical archives. And oh, what she finds there! The mirror was likely passed down through generations of the illustrious Brown family of Providence, Rhode Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout history, mirrors have been seen as having mystical powers, enabling those who peer into them to connect the past and the future. In \u003ci\u003eAesop's Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e, Maryalice Huggins does just that, creating a marvelous, one-of-kind book about a marvelous, one of-a-kind American treasure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141775343856,"sku":"9781429935951","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429935951_p0.jpg?v=1769902256","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429935951","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}