Sometimes a video is worth
a couple of hundred words. Click the YouTube above to see what a
fore-edge painting is. It's only 33 seconds.
Neat, huh? Here's a longer
video (4:19), showing ten very nice examples, including one with both
the fore- and bottom-edge painted:
These books are not
common, of course, but they're not as rare as you might think.
Artists are still creating them today. Prices at ebay
and Abebooks
are typically in the hundreds of dollars.
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1 comment:
Dogs playing pool! How cool is that, also, what was the title of the book that was applied to? Fascinating stuff, as usual.
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