Books With Secret Paintings

Along the edges of a closed book’s pages, a gold edge can hide a landscape. Fan the pages gently and the image appears; close the book and it vanishes beneath the gilding. This is hidden fore-edge painting: an artist paints across the edges while the pages are fanned. Some books reveal one picture when fanned one way and a different painting when fanned the other, the same book, two hidden scenes.

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