Tuesday morning coffee break: incredible fore-edge paintings in books

Take a coffee break this rainy Tuesday morning with a collection of incredible secret fore-edge paintings:

“Fore-edge painting, which is believed to date back as early as the 1650s, is a way of hiding a painting on the edge of a book so that it can only be seen when the pages are fanned out. There are even books that have double fore-edge paintings, where a different image can be seen by flipping the book over and fanning the pages in the opposite direction.”

Beautiful. Think any of Langara’s first-year chemistry textbooks have this feature?

(Thanks to Brent, our Library Systems Manager, for the tip!)

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