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Books About Fore Edge Painting
Here are some of the books that have been written about Fore Edge Painting. For your convenience there is a search facility at the bottom of the page. If yo ucan recommend anymore we will gladly include them.
The Craftsman's Guide to Edge Decoration
by John Mitchell
(isbn:0952162601)
Published by (Five Oaks West Sussex, UK) Standing Press (1993) Edited and designed by Nolan Watts.
The first comprehensive guide to the art and craft of edge decoration, designed for beginner and expert alike.
Chapters include: Eguipment & techniques, sizes, edge coloring, sprinkling, edge marbling, gold, gilting in the flat, in the round, the foredge, after rounding & backing, in boards, rough edge, gauffering, color under gold, and fore edge painting.
Profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings. The author was Senior Lecturer in charge of bookbinding at the London College of Printing for many years and did presentation bindings for Queen Elizabeth, Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy, among others. Very scarce to findin its first printing.
Fore-edge painting: A historical survey of a curious art in book illustration
by Carl Jefferson Weber Carl Jefferson
Published by Harvey House Inc., Irvington - on - Hudson, New York, 1966
Re-written largely using examples from the publisher's own personal collection, Zola E. Harvey's books were of considerable interest, but not as early as the Doheny Collection. The Harvey collection sold at Swann Galleries a few years ago.
Thirty-five photographic illustrations
A Thousand And One Fore-Edge Paintings With Notes on the Artists, Bookbinders, Publishers...
by Carl W.Weber,
Colby College Press, Waterville, ME, 1949. Hardcover
This volume is widely regarded as among the most important reference work on fore - edge paintings. With many color and black & white illustrations.The definitive reference work on this unusual form of book art, is illustrated with numerous black and white as well as color reproductions of fore-edge paintings
Free Online copy of the Fore Edge Painting by Carl Weber
The Fore-edge Paintings of John T. Beer; a biographical & historical essay followed by a catalogue based on the sale of his library. With a prologue: The ABC's of fore-edge painting.
by Weber, Jeff.
Published by
Los Angeles: Jeff Weber Rare Books, 2006.
Limited to 210 copies printed by the Castle Press, Pasadena.
Bound by the Campbell-Logan Bindery in dark blue cloth with gilt spine.
This addition to the literature of this unique form of book decoration Includes a section on ''The ABCs of Fore-Edge Paintings,'' which is especially helpful to beginners. Forty years after the second edition of Professor Carl J. Weber’s book, Fore-edge Painting; an historical survey (Second edition, 1966), his grandson, antiquarian bookseller Jeff Weber, has written a book putting an end to the phrase: "Carl Weber’s book is the only book written on fore-edge painting." This new book will provide new insight into the history of this unique form of book decoration. It will revise the chapter on John T. Beer’s remarkable work. Every collector will want to have a chance to understand the language and art of fore-edge paintings. Octavo. xxvi, 164 pp. Color frontispiece, 10 plates (including 10 color illus.), chronology.
The curious art of fore-edge painting.
by Martha H
Earp,
Tampa, FL: The Author, 1980. [Spccoll TCN: AGZ8130].
Hidden Treasures : A Brief History and Study of Fore-edge Painting
by
Yvonne Etnyre Greear
1979.
The History and Technique of Fore-edge Painting.
by M D Baltimore,
: Loyola-Notre Dame Library, Inc., 1983.
A Study of Modern Fore-edge Painting
by Nancy ChristensonSwan,
Washington, DC: Catholic University of America, 1956.
Paintings Under Gold at Stanford.
WEBER, L. Jefferson and David C. WEBER.
Reprinted from The Imprint of the Stanford Libraries Associates volume ix, number 2, October 1983. 253 x 172 mm. [8] pp. Illus., some in color. Printed wrappers. ( paperback.)