{"id":4840,"date":"2013-09-03T17:43:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T00:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2013-09-13T17:47:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T00:47:58","slug":"secret-fore-edges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/03\/secret-fore-edges\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Fore-Edges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2013\/09\/fore-edge-book-paintings\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from COLOSSAL<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Secret Fore-Edge Paintings Revealed in Early 19th Century Books at the University of Iowa<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Secret Fore Edge Paintings Revealed in Early 19th Century Books at the University of Iowa\" alt=\"Secret Fore Edge Paintings Revealed in Early 19th Century Books at the University of Iowa seasons painting illustration fore edge painting books \" src=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Summer.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Summer.gif\" \/><em>Summer by Robert Mudie \/ Special Collections &amp; University Archives at the University of Iowa<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libralthinking\" target=\"_blank\">Colleen Theisen<\/a>\u00a0who helps with outreach and instruction at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/spec-coll\/\" target=\"_blank\">Special Collections &amp; University Archives<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Iowa shared an amazing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/uispeccoll.tumblr.com\/post\/59499211752\/its-a-secret-to-everybody-this-is-one-example\" target=\"_blank\">gif she made<\/a>\u00a0that demonstrates something called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fore-edge_painting\" target=\"_blank\">fore-edge painting<\/a>\u00a0on the edge of a 1837 book called\u00a0<em>Autumn<\/em>\u00a0by Robert Mudie. 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. There are even books that have double fore-edge paintings, where a different image can be seen by flipping the book over and fanning the pages in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2013\/09\/fore-edge-book-paintings\/\">click to continue reading at COLOSSAL<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from COLOSSAL Secret Fore-Edge Paintings Revealed in Early 19th Century Books at the University of Iowa Summer by Robert Mudie \/ Special Collections &amp; University Archives at the University of Iowa A few days ago\u00a0Colleen Theisen\u00a0who helps with outreach and instruction at the\u00a0Special Collections &amp; University Archives\u00a0at the University of Iowa shared an amazing\u00a0gif she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}