#fore-edge

[hdslibrary]

Fore-edge Friday: Bolts of Blue?

The edges of this 18th century German work by Christian Pietist, Johann Arndt have been decorated using blue paste. We think it has an almost meteorological vibe--like rolling clouds or even lightning.

(For the lovely surprise we found inside, see our earlier post.)

Arndt, Johann. Sechs Bücher vom Wahren Christenthum … nebst dem Paradies-Gärtlein, samt Herrn D. Rambachs historischem Berichte von des sel. Arnds Person und wahrem Christenthume. Achte Auflage. Hof: Verlegts Johann Christoph Leidensrost, 1767.

[noelcollection]

It's Fore-edge Friday!

These marbled edges come from four volumes of Bentley's Miscellany, a 19th-century English literary magazine.

Call Number: AP4 .B43

Catalog Record: https://bit.ly/3hr6Pd0

[uispeccoll]

More book clasps please! ❤️

Vulgate Bible. [xfBS75 1538]

Incipit Liber q[ui] rosella casuu[m] appellatur. [INC BJ1240 T76 1499]

Psalterivm romanvm. [x264.028 C36p 1576]

Astrolabium. [INC QB41 A54 1488]

King Florus and the Fair Jehane. [xPQ1461 F47 E5 1893]

Here are more!

All from our Instagram @uispeccoll.

Photos by Lindsay Moen.

-Colleen

[pittrarebooks]

Special Collections recently welcomed students from Professor Chloe Hogg’s “Global French.” Professor Hogg introduced students to volumes of the 1780 edition of Guillaume-Thomas Raynal’s Histoire Philosophique et Politique, various maps, and editions of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s Paul et Virginie.

Students especially enjoyed this fore-edge painting from the 1799 edition of Paul et Virginie:

Pictured (in order of appearance):

Hennepin, Louis. Description de la Louisiane... Paris: Chez la veuve Sebastien Huré ..., 1683.

Raynal, Guillaume-Thomas. Histoire Philosophique Et Politique (vols. 1 & 2). Genève: 1781.

Bellin, Jacques Nicolas. Le Petit Atlas Maritime...Paris, 1764.

St. Pierre, Bernardin de. Paul and Virginia (translated from the French of by Helen Maria Williams). Boston: Lilly, Wait & Co, 1834.

St. Pierre, Bernardin de. Paul and Virginia (with illustrations by Maurice Leloir). New York : T.Y. Crowell, 1892.

St. Pierre, Bernardin de. Paul et Virginie. Londres: l’Impr. de Baylis, 1799.

-Jennifer Needham, Special Collections

[ingridrichter]

[feyheart5]

Book art

I feel like I’m one of the only people who cringe when I see book art that has destroyed a book. I tell myself that it could have been a waterlogged or other already-damaged book. I do find this trend to be extremely creative and beautiful. Check out this example: https://www.etsy.com/listing/240461852/book-folding-patterns-love-278-folds?ref=share_v4_lx As a kid, I discovered books that had…

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[berylovesbooks]

La pratique de la peinture avant-bord - peindre une image sur le bord avant d'un livre (gouttière) a atteint le sommet de sa popularité à la fin du XVIIIe et au début du XIXe siècles.

[berylovesbooks]

Fore-edge painting of St Paul’s Cathedral in The Holy Bible, edited by the Reverend Clement Cruttwell. The practice of fore-edge painting – painting an image on the fore-edge of a book so that it is only visible when the book is opened – reached the height of its popularity in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. One example is a three-volume edition of the Holy Bible published in Bath in 1785 which, according to the handwritten dedication within it, was owned by a Mary Johnson (née Robinson).[1] She was given the set by her father-in-law John Johnson, a coalmining landowner, as a wedding gift to mark her marriage to John’s eldest son on 7 May 1818. John Johnson dedicated the first volume to the couple with ‘his most affectionate Regards…for their Peace, Comfort, and Happiness here and their Eternal Felicity Hereafter’.