Wow we love these secret and hidden treasures that are right before you but you don’t see them.. These early 19th century books with secret fore-edge book-paintings are a great example of just that. Discovered by Colleen Theisen at the University of Iowa she shows us some amazing and mind-boggling hidden 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. Check out these Cool examples..
Autumn by Robert Mudie / Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa
Winter by Robert Mudie / Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa
Spring by Robert Mudie / Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa
Summer by Robert Mudie / Special Collections & University Archives at the University of IowaHere are some other awesome pieces of Fore-edge Book-Paintings..
(Via ThisisColosal)
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