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The Treasure ChestEach month, The Treasure Chest will be updated to introduce a new Special Collection treasure. |
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Fore-edge Painting |
| A fore-edge painting is a watercolor design painted on the edge of a book. The design is usually only visible when the pages of the book are fanned out. The beginning of fore-edge painting can be traced back as early as the tenth century. The Special Collection department at Samford University has three paintings of this type. |
ResourcesFore-Edge Painting from Conservation Online Montgomery, James, Poems of James Montgomery, London, New York, Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1860 Tennyson, Alfred; Enoch Arden, London, Edward Moxon, 1864 Tennyson, Alfred, Poems, London: Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street., 1865. Weber, Carl Jefferson, Fore-edge Painting, a Historical Survey of a Curious Art in Book Decoration. Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y., Harvey House, 1966 |
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