On the Edge
The Hidden Art of Fore-Edge Book Painting
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Book title: The Holy Bible, v.1
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. Stereotype edition. Oxford, Printed at the Clarendon Press by Bensley, Cooke and Collingwood, 1812.
3 vols., small 8vo, full green contemporary straight-grain morocco, gilt and blind backs, gilt and blind borders on sides, gilt edges.
With a painting concealed under the gilt of each fore-edge depicting views of Italian coastal towns.
07_04_000102A
Fore-edge/fanned to the right
Cities & Towns
Marines (Visual works)

