Highlights from @BPLBoston’s collection of “fore-edge” paintings, illustrations adorning the open edges of books, only revealed when the stack of pages are fanned — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fore-edge-book-paintings-from-the-boston-public-library
(Pictured here: François-André Danican Philidor’s Analysis of the Game of Chess, 1749.)
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