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Rare Fore-edge Painting Books Rare & Antiquarian Books
Fore edge paintings can be found on edges of book pages that are visible when the page edges face the reader. Fore edge painting is an art form that dates as early as 1650, and there are some books that even feature secret fore edge paintings that can only be seen when the pages are fanned in front of the reader, disappearing as the book is fully closed. Some fore edge paintings are subtle and very simple, while others are colorful and quite detailed. Some special and hard to find books even have double fore edge paintings, where the illustration changes depending on the direction of the pages being fanned. Fore edge paintings also served a utility, as the unique paintings made the book identifiable when the book pages were facing outward.
The Lady of the Lake, Fore-Edge Painted by Scott, Walter
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1871. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine/no dust Jackets. Heading: [Fore-edge Painting] Author: Scott, Walter Title: The Lady of the Lake Place Published: Edinburgh Publisher:Adam and Charles Black Date Published: 187...
From mclinhavenbooks
$1,500.00
The Holy Bible, containing the old and new testaments . . . Stereotype edition. by [Fore-Edge Painting] [Bible]
Oxford:: Printed at the Clarendon Press, by Samuel Collingwood, 1822., 1822. 8vo. 1039 pp. Paper lightly browned (causing edge painting to look browned). Original dark brown straight grained morocco elaborately stamped in blind, a.e.g.; neatly rebacked, ...
$575.00
[WORKS]. P. VIRGILIUS MARO: IN USUM SCHOLARUM / AD NOVISSIMAM HEYNII EDITIONEM EXACTUS by (FORE-EDGE PAINTING). VIRGIL
Londini: Impensis J. Johnson et al., 1809. 248 x 146 mm. (9 3/4 x 5 3/4"). 2 p.l., 700 pp.With commentary by Christian Gottlob Heyne. HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY NAVY BLUE STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, DENSELY GILT, covers with thick and thin gilt rule border a...
$3,016.00
Poems by Thomas Hood - With Fore-Edge Paining of an Amputation by Martin Frost, foredge by Hood, Thomas
London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1860. 12th. Leather_bound. Very Good +. London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1860. 12th. Very Good +. Hood, Thomas. Poems by Thomas Hood. London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1860, 12th edition. Textured burnt orange leather w...
$1,000.00
The Book of Common Prayer by Church of England
Oxford: T. Wright and W. Gill, 1767. first thus Edition.. Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Newberry. Copyright date 1767, first thus edition. Not paginated. With a fine fore-edge painting with a view of Oxford from the North. Period full black paneled cal...
From mclinhavenbooks
$1,755.00
The Complaint; or, Night Thoughts by [Fore-edge Painting] Young, Edward
London: Rivington, 1813. Full straight-grained maroon full morocco binding with five raised bands and gilt lettering on spine, marbled endpapers. Superb traditional style fore-edge painting showing a night rambler and his dog at a moonlit lake alongside ...
From Nudelman Rare Books
$950.00
The Pleasures of Hope, with other poems. A new edition. [with]: Gertrude of Wyoming, and other poems. Ninth edition. by [Fore-Edge Painting] CAMPBELL, Thomas
London:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825., 1825. 2 vols. in 1. 12mo. 144; 160 pp. Engraved half-title, engraved plates by C. Heath after drawings by R. Westall. Original full dark green straight-grain gilt-ruled morocco, gilt spine, a....
$4,800.00
Chinese Fore-Edge Painting with scenes from the New Testament [Bible]. by [CHINESE FORE-EDGE PAINTING, Biblical]
Hong Kong,: 1553-1588., 1553. 3 volumes. Tall [6.5x10.5 inches]. 'Hsiao Hs?ch Kan Chu' Vols., 7-8. (Chinese Encyclopedia of Unprofitable Learning]. Written by Wang Ying-Lin (Po Hou) (1223-1275 A.D.). Edited in [the] 32th [sic] year, 36th year of Chia Chi...
$12,500.00
[DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. Poems by ROGERS, Samuel
London: Moxon, 1838. hardcover. near fine. Illustrated with numerous in-text engravings. 313 pages. 12mo, beautifully bound in contemporary gilt-decorated burgundy morocco, a.e.g. London: Edward Moxon, 1838. Near fine (both hinges repaired). With a ma...
From Argosy Book Store
$2,500.00
Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of North America by (Fore-edge) Herbert, Henry William ["Frank Forester"]
London: Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1849. First edition. Illustrated. xvi, 445 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. In publisher's presentation pebbled green gilt morocco, with emblematic gilt tooling, a.e.g., a few scuffs to covers. With inscript...
$1,250.00
[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. Memoirs of Marmontel by MARMONTEL, Jean-Francois
Edinburgh: Mundell, Doig and Stevenson, 1808. hardcover. fine. 4 volumes. Handsomely bound in contemporary straight grained green morocco with gilt designs on covers & spines, a.e.g. Housed in a red cloth folding box. Edinburgh: Printed for Mundell,...
From Argosy Book Store
$3,000.00
Fore-Edge Painting Of Piccadilly (In) A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Origin Of Our Ideas Of The Sublime And Beautiful. With An Introductory Discourse Concerning Taste, And Several Other Additions by Burke, Edmund
London: Thomas Mclean, 1823. Later Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8 9/16" Tall. Fore-Edge Painting. Nineteenth Century Reprint Of The Second [1759] Edition Burke's Well-Known 1757 Essay Which Many Regard As The Beginning Of Romanticism. Xvi, 2...
From Arroyo Seco Books
$675.00
Scelta Di Poesie Italiane d" Autori Moderni [Fore-edge Painting] by Buttura, Antonio [1770-1832]
Parigi: Presso Lefevre, 1822. 42mo. Fore-edge painting depicting the leaning tower of Pisa along side the Cathedral. 310pp. vol. 30 only. Text in Italian. Bound in full maroon straight grained morocco, slightly raised bands with title gilt, all edges gi...
$430.00
Memoirs Of Rev. John Blackader; Compiled Chiefly From Unpublished Manuscripts, And Memoirs Of His Life And Ministry Written By Himself While Prisoner On The Bass; And Containing Illustrations Of The Episcopal Persecution From The Restoration To The Death Of Charles Ii. With An Appendix Giving A Short Account Of The History And Seige Of The Bass, Etc. (With A Fore-Edge Painting) by Crichton, Andrew
Edinburgh / London: Archibald Constable & Company / Hurst, Robinson & Co, 1823. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Frontispiece, Fore-Edge Painting. Vii, 388 Pp. Full Calf, Five Bands, Black Spine Label, Gilt All Compartments, Gilt...
From Arroyo Seco Books
$500.00
The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood. Memoir, Explanatory Notes, &c. With original illustrations and steel portrait. by [Fore-Edge Painting] HOOD, Thomas
London:: Frederick Warne and co., [no date].. At head of title: The Chandos Poets. Small 8vo. xxiii, 414 pp. Engraved frontispiece of the author, plates. Original full dark green morocco, gilt stamped covers with "Hood's Works" on the upper cover, gilt s...
$650.00
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