Red Leather Bound Volume of Byron's Poetical Works with a Fantastic Fore-Edge Painting of Rome

Wonderful 19th century red leather bound volume of Byron's poetry with a beautiful fore-edge painting that is visible only when the pages are fanned. Gilt edges and accents. To begin a fore-edge painting artists clamped the slightly fanned pages of a book between the boards of a special press that held them in place while keeping pressure off the cover boards.While the paints used for fore-edge paintings are watercolors, artists needed to use them carefully. If water was first used on the pages the paint would bleed through to the inner pages or remove the gold of the fore-edges. Artists needed to slowly build up the colors of the fore-edges to avoid over-saturating the paper. 

6.5" x 9.5" x 1.5"

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