Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1871. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine/no dust Jackets. Heading: [Fore-edge Painting] Au...
$1,500.00
London: Macmillan And Co, 1914. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine. Frontispiece; Fore-Edge Painting By Lyman Young. Xlii, 167 Pp....
$475.00
London: Nottingham Court Press, 1979. reprint Edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Heading: (Fore-edge Painting) Author:...
$1,200.00![The Pleasures of Hope, with other poems. A new edition. [with]: Gertrude of Wyoming, and other poems. Ninth edition.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/354/117/510117354.0.b.jpg){kind=small}
London:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825., 1825. 2 vols. in 1. 12mo. 144; 160 pp. Engraved half-title, engra...
$4,800.00
Oxford: T. Wright and W. Gill, 1767. first thus Edition.. Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Newberry. Copyright date 1767, first ...
$1,755.00
Oxford:: Printed at the Clarendon Press, by Samuel Collingwood, 1822., 1822. 8vo. 1039 pp. Paper lightly browned (causing edge ...
$575.00![[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. Memoirs of Marmontel](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/542/782/171782542.0.b.jpg)
Edinburgh: Mundell, Doig and Stevenson, 1808. hardcover. fine. 4 volumes. Handsomely bound in contemporary straight grained gr...
$3,000.00
London: Chapman and Hall, 1860. FIRST EDITION. This selection of excerpts from Shakespeare's works purports to show us the play...
$7,800.00
London: Rivington, 1813. Full straight-grained maroon full morocco binding with five raised bands and gilt lettering on spine, ...
$950.00![[DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. Poems](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/540/835/171835540.0.b.jpg)
London: Moxon, 1838. hardcover. near fine. Illustrated with numerous in-text engravings. 313 pages. 12mo, beautifully bound in...
$2,500.00
London:: Frederick Warne and co., [no date].. At head of title: The Chandos Poets. Small 8vo. xxiii, 414 pp. Engraved frontispi...
$650.00
London: Thomas Mclean, 1823. Later Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8 9/16" Tall. Fore-Edge Painting. Nineteenth Century R...
$895.00
London: Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1849. First edition. Illustrated. xvi, 445 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. In p...
$1,250.00![Scelta Di Poesie Italiane d" Autori Moderni [Fore-edge Painting]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/553/016/765016553.0.b.jpg)
Parigi: Presso Lefevre, 1822. 42mo. Fore-edge painting depicting the leaning tower of Pisa along side the Cathedral. 310pp. vol...
$450.00
London:: Charles Griffin, 1867., 1867. 8vo. xxxviii, 682 pp. Index to subjects. Original full brown morocco stamped in darker b...
$800.00Fore 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.
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