Website review: Hand Bookbindings: Edge Decoration
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•3 reviews since Feb 4, 2006
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xineann rated 8 months ago
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How it's done: With the textblock clamped into a fanned-out position, the painting is done on the very edges of the exposed plane of leaves. The book is then returned to its regular shape, and a layer of gold leaf is applied over the painted edges, effectively hiding the painting until the leaves are fanned out again.
- anitab rated 9 months ago
- this is the most beautiful thing i've ever seen. a must for book lovers.
- b-bear rated 9 months ago
- A fore-edge painted edition of Sophocles, published in Strasbourg in 1786. From the site: "A certain fascination surrounds fore-edge painting, perhaps because it's a little like magic. With the textblock clamped into a fanned-out position, the painting is done on the very edges of the exposed plane of leaves. The book is then returned to its regular shape, and a layer of gold leaf is applied over the painted edges, effectively hiding the painting until the leaves are fanned out again. Several English binderies in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries specialized in this technique."
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