fore-edge


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fore-edge

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(Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) the outer edge of the pages of a book
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To assist with the quick location of family groups throughout the book, the fore-edge of the book is colour coded.
A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia by Robert Whyte and Greg Anderson
Its cover feels strangely and even eerily cool to the touch, and eases open toward the fore-edge as if tugged open by an unseen hand, but it is actually time's tautening of the skin, which is characteristic of vellum bindings.
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The above-mentioned plate is an etching, taken from Johann Comenius's Orbis sensualium pictus (London, 1685), which shows in great detail the quasi-geometrical layout of a seventeenth-century bookshop, with books being kept in horizontal stacks of unbound sheets, for readers to bind themselves in their preferred configuration, and with only about a third of the stock kept in ready-bound form, sitting vertically on the shelf, fore-edge out.
Knight, Jeffrey T., Bound to Read: Compilations, Collections, and the Making of Renaissance Literature
Taking place at the Fort Mason Center in the beautiful Marina district, over 40 international participants present a range of trompe l'oeil and transformable exhibits, including metamorphic furniture and fore-edge painting.
Around the galleries: a wealth of exhibitions and fairs take place on both sides of the Atlantic this month, including the International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show in New York and shows of Frink, Nicholson and Motherwell in London
Particularly intriguing are fore-edge paintings, scenes or figures painted on the fore-edge of a book but visible only when the pages of the book are slightly bent or fanned so as to reveal the illustration.
The Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection of John Milton at the University of South Carolina
"He was a 19th century architect and writer, and the books had been decorated with a fore-edge painting, which is a painting you can only see when you fan the pages in a certain way, at the time of its publication.
A turn up for the books; What treasures are hiding in Wales' second-hand bookshops? Matt Thomas pays some of them a visit a nd rifles through their shelves
However, she describes with clarity the various methods, both luxurious and economical, for constructing a decorated binding for a large book: the methods of sewing signatures, of gluing, constructing bands and false bands, spines, tailpieces, fore-edge paintings, book presses--all the marvelous paraphernalia of the craft.
Marsh's Library and its early fine bindings: formed by scholars and gentleman

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