19 Sep 2025
#ForeedgeFriday
Not every fore-edge is flashy! These #17Century folios from the Schulich-Woolf collection keep it classic—plain, sturdy, and full of stories.
#RareBooks #SpecialCollections #BookHistory #schulichwoolfcollection
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6 Sep 2024
These delightfully decorated book-edges must be admired on #foreedgefriday ! 📚
Luckily for us, we’ve a whole set of bindings which are artfully dressed as such 😌
Happy Friday ☀️
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2 Feb 2024
Today's #ForeEdgeFriday post comes from Research and Reference Librarian Mark Armstrong.
Trattato della sphera, nel quale si dimostrano, & insegnano i principii della astrologia
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de.
Impresso in Venetia; Nel. M.D.XLIII. 1543.
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Today’s #ForeedgeFriday comes from Oliver Goldsmith’s ‘A History of the Earth and Animated Nature’!
This particular volume uses a Blue Stormont Marble pattern, one of the most popular marbling designs.
[RESERVE--590-GOL VOL. 1]
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19 Jan 2024
Excited to share images of this gorgeous book today for #foreedgefriday!
Source:
Gray, Thomas. The Poems of Gray. : Adorned with Plates. A new edition. London: Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, for F.J. Du Roveray, Great St. Helens, 1800. Print.
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19 Jan 2024
Happy #ForeedgeFriday! This week, we have another double foreedge painting that carries around to the top and bottom edges, hidden beneath beautifully gauffered edges! Lady of the Lake, 1810 #SpecialCollections #19thcentury #ForeedgePainting
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11 Nov 2023
Each of the 7 volumes in the library's copy of Poems of Alfred Tennyson (1868) has a foreedge painting. Volume 1, shown here, shows Fawley Court from the River Thames. #ForeedgeFriday
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Today's #ForeedgeFriday features a fore-edge title!
These are usually found on books from the late Middle Ages to the 17th century, as it was common to store books with their fore-edges outwards.📚
This particular volume comes from 1587! [RESERVE FOLIO--942.008-RER]
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6 Oct 2023
Happy #ForeedgeFriday! This fore-edge painting of a ship in the harbor is appropriately from Memoirs of Rear-Admiral Sir W. Edward Parry, published in 1859. #SpecialCollections #ForeedgePainting
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This week’s #ForeedgeFriday comes from Lyson’s ‘Environs of London’.
Published in 1810, this volume has a vibrant marbled pattern that extends across the end papers and edges!
[OVERSTONE – SHELF FOLIO 29H/07 Vol. 1, P. 1.]
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18 Aug 2023
It's #ForeEdgeFriday! These marbled edges reminded us of blue skies with wispy clouds - we're hoping the nice weather will appear in the forecast too, not just on fore-edges! 🌞
📕: WEG/L 11/TYP
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Today’s #ForeedgeFriday is from this 1846 edition of ‘Moore’s Irish Melodies’.
This copy features gilt and gauffered edges, stamped with a harp on the foredge and trumpets on the head and tail edges🎺
[LONGMAN COLLECTION]
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4 Aug 2023
Happy #ForeedgeFriday! This charming carriage scene can be found on "The poems and letters of Thomas Gray" edited by William Mason and printed in 1820. Thomas Gray was an English poet and scholar. He is best remembered for his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751).
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28 Jul 2023
Happy #foreedgefriday! This fore-edge detail comes from "The Epicurean" by Thomas Moore, 1827. The book includes a letter to the translator asking him to translate a "curious Greek manuscript" found at the monastery of St. Macarius.
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28 Jul 2023
What a treat! A closed #foreedge title on luscious leather binding.
A lovely example of a title painted on the fore-edge of the bookblock. Commonly found on late medieval books which were stored with fore-edges outwards to the 17th century. #ForeedgeFriday
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21 Jul 2023
Happy #foreedgefriday! This foreedge painting possibly depicts Tennyson’s house on the Isle of Wight and decorates the edge of an 1892 edition of the collected works of Tennyson. #foreedgepainting #tennyson #19thcentury #rarebooks #specialcollections
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14 Jul 2023
Happy #foreedgefriday! This portrait of William Wordsworth and the English landscape fittingly decorates the edge of "The Poems of William Wordsworth," published by Edward Moxon, 1851. #williamwordsworth #specialcollections
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Today’s #ForeedgeFriday comes from The Book of Common Prayer (1844) from the Didcot Parish Library!
⚜️ The edges are gilt and gauffered with a detailed fleur-de-lis design ⚜️
[Didcot 5]
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