Hidden fore edge painting

Allie Alvis on Instagram: "Hidden fore-edge paintings from the New-York Historical Society @nyhistory Library 📚 Happy #ForeEdgeFrieday ! @nyhistory has a terrific collection of books that exhibit this hidden art 😍 The paintings are done while the book’s pages are fanned out in a special clamp; when they’re un-fanned, the painting is hidden! Fore-edge paintings like these experienced a spike in popularity in the 19th century (all of these are from 1875 onward), and are still being made…

There was once a time when fore-edge paintings were in fashion – that is, intricate illustrations around the closed pages of a book. Although gold or silver leaf was always a popular choice, some t...

Sometimes, a book is more than a book. The new video above from Francis Marion University reveals an example of a hidden medieval art form called “fore ...

One year ago... ✨ Swipe to see the finished book! ⏩ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Fore-edge painting 🖌️

I was delighted to discover this week that the Cardiff Rare Books Collection includes two books with fore-edge paintings by the artist John T. Beer. Fore-edge paintings are watercolour illustration…

A few days ago Colleen Theisen who helps with outreach and instruction at the Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa shared an amazing gif she made that demonstrates something called fore-edge painting on the edge of a 1837 book called Autumn by Robert Mudie. Fore-edge painting, which is believed to date back as early as the 1650s, is a way of hiding a painting on the edge of a book so that it can only be seen when the pages are fanned out. More

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Swipe to see the hidden painting 🖌️ 💫 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Vanishing Fore-edge painting #books #foreedgepaintings #foreedgepainting #harrypotter #harrypotterseries

Swipe to see the transition (reel on my profile for video of opening the book to see code) “Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.” ― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol This is an old copy of The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown that I wanted to revive. This book is special in that, it has two fore-edge paintings. One that is easily visible on the long edge I hand gilded with gold foil. Another, a hidden code, you see only when you fan the edges. I carefully painted a set of…

I had the opportunity to work on several commissions last month. A book collector from over 350 kilometres away, sent me some of his beautiful books to have the edges painted, and one of them to be rebound from paperback to hardcover. 🎃 Welcoming the spooky season, the first of those is the fantasy novel Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. This is the Fore-edge of the book featuring a raven skull. 🪄 All design credits to the client. 📚 Tags - #commission #bookbinding…

A series of secret 'fore-edge' paintings have been discovered on the edges of books found at the University of Iowa. Check out this amazing illustration technique...

Hand painted fore-edge painting on the book Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Hardcover, English edition, Bloomsbury Academic). The front edge features the first task of the Triwizard Tournament: Harry's fight against the dragon. On the upper and lower book edges you can read the iconic quote: "We are only as strong as we are together. As weak as we are divided." A varnish has been applied so the painting will be durable. Nevertheless, please be aware that this is a unique work of art and…

Can you guess todays edges? Not sure about this photo, what do we think? #stencillededges #bookstack #stacksaturday #guessthebook #fairyloot #purplebooks #bookhygge #hyggebookstyle

Secret edge paintings

Arion. Sammlung auserlesener Gesangstücke mit Begleitung des Pianoforte. Leipzig, Robert Crayen, (c. 1830). Two oblong octavo volumes, each with a wrap-around fore-edge painting by modern British artist Clare Brooksbank. The set contains sheet music and lyrics for pianoforte gathered from a variety of composers, such as Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. The subject matter is reflected in the fore-edge paintings, which show interior views of a European opera house surmounted by a total of twelve…

We have 175 copies of [Fore-Edge Painting] The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club for sale starting from $3.00.

For centuries, many fine books have held a magical secret not within their pages but on the edges. Stunning fore-edge paintings are only visible when the book's pages are slightly…