Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Fore-edge Paintings



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:

The Dude said...

Dogs playing pool! How cool is that, also, what was the title of the book that was applied to? Fascinating stuff, as usual.