“Of course, the art of fore-edge painting goes back many centuries before Edwards, to when it was common to write an author’s name or book title onto the fore-edge of a book for identification purposes, but this exhibition (with one exception) focuses on the heyday of the ”vanishing“ fore-edge painting (one that is invisible when a book is closed and appears only when the book is fanned open) that began in Edwards’ shop and continued into the 20th century,” Indiana University adds.
What’s a Fore-Edge Painting?
11/30/2015
Updated: 12/7/2015
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