Browse Items (166 total)
Sort by:
The poetical works of Robert Burns.
This copy of volume 1 of Robert Burns' poetry has a double fore-edge painting. Fan the pages to the left and you will see Struthers Steps, Kilmarnock. Fan the pages to the right and you see the clay cottage where Burns was born in Alloway, Ayrshire,…
The poetical works of Robert Burns.
This copy of volume 1 of Robert Burns' poetry has a double fore-edge painting. Fan the pages to the left and you will see Struthers Steps, Kilmarnock. Fan the pages to the right and you see the clay cottage where Burns was born in Alloway, Ayrshire,…
Friendship's offering
This book's wintery theme is augmented with a winter scene painted on its fore-edge. The lines seen on the fore-edge are caused by the engraved illustrations inserted into the book.
The Life of Mrs. Godolphin
A fore-edge painting of Windsor Castle adorns this edition of John Evelyn's biography of Margaret Blagge Godolphin (1652-1678), a courtier in King Charles II court known for her extraordinary beauty.
Poems by the late William Cowper
The fore-edge painting on the Cary Collection's Poems by the late William Cowper show the poet at work in his garden at Orchard Side in Olney, Buckinghamshire, in the company of one of his pet rabbits, either Puss, Tiney, or Bess.
Specimens of the Early English Poets.
Each of the Cary Collection's three volumes of George Ellis' Specimens of the Early English Poets has a fore-edge painting showing a foxhunting scene with some sort of comic mishap. Here a rider has flipped over this horse. Let's hope he wasn't…
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church
This fore-edge painting appears to be contemporaneous with the book's mid-eighteenth century decorative binding featuring a wheel motif with the crucifixion at the center. Some of the fore-edge painting has been rubbed away over the years.
Geistliche brosamen : von des Herrn tisch gefallen, von guten freunden aufgelesen
The use of clasps on books dates back to the earliest codices. Affixed to the fore-edges, clasps stabilize a book, preventing the vellum or paper leaves from fanning out and the boards from warping.
Nicolai Heinsii D. F. notae in sex libros Fastorum P. Ovidii Nasonis.
An early owner of these 17th century editions of Ovid's works had them bound in vellum with overhanging edges that protect the fore-edges.
Nicolai Heinsii D. F. notae in Heroïdas P. Ovidii Nasonis
An early owner of these 17th century editions of Ovid's works had them bound in vellum with overhanging edges that protect the fore-edges.