#foreedgefriday

[librarycompany]

This gilt fore-edge Friday brought to you by two padded bindings, a lovely clasp, and a celluloid plastic binding reminiscent of lasagna, all late 19th century. Happy Friday!

[bisonbooks]

Fore-edge painting of Winnipeg, ca. 1890. #rarebooks #foreedgepainting #foreedgefriday #antiquarianbooks #finebinding #leatherboundbooks (at Winnipeg, Manitoba) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7uFvMsgWdH/?igshid=r27d9jy4aoql

[eidolonhouse]

🎥: A clip of the concealed fore-edge painting I did a couple months back for #foreedgefriday! We hope y'all have a great weekend! And as usual we hope your weekend is filled with good friends, delicious food, enlightening conversation, maybe a fluffy rabbit or a woolly sheep, and an antiquarian bookshop. . . or two. . . or three. 📚📖🐇🐑 #eidolonhouse #tgif #foreedgepainting #rarebooks #myart #oldbooks #booklovers #bookarts #igbooks

[skylightbooks]

Best use of hashtags and Fridays on the internet.

[librarycompany]

We have to stop and admire every gauffered fore edge we spot in the stacks, it's practically a job requirement.

This one is from a Bible published by J.B. Lippincott & Company in 1864.

Happy #ForeEdgeFriday!

[librarycompany]

Over the river and through the woods...

Happy Holidays!

The Library Company will be closed December 24, 2021-January 2, 2022.

Fore-edge painting from: The Gift of Friendship. (Philadelphia, 1846)

[librarycompany]

Here's hoping your weekend is as nice as this fancy gilt and gauffered foreedge!

Behm, Jean. Chronologica Manuductio...Frankfurt am Main, 1619.

[librarycompany]

We love the decidedly autumnal gauffered acorns on the fore-edge of this photo album. And those clasps aren't half bad, either!