The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of the Church of England

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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of the Church of England

Publisher Cambridge University, Cambridge, 1762 (John Baskerville)

Printer John Baskerville, Cambridge

Author Church of England

Place of OriginEngland (Cambridge)

Date1762

Dimensionsbook: 9 1/2 x 6 x 1 15/16 in. (241 x 152 x 50mm)
page: 9 1/16 x 5 3/4 in. (230 x 146mm)

MediumOriginal painting: watercolor fore-edge painting Text: letterpress Paper: cream laid paper

ClassificationBooks

Object number

1926.152

Not on View

Label TextThe fore-edge is the edge of this book opposite the spine. The practice of decorating the fore-edge of books was popular in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century. The painting on the fore-edge is most visible when the leaves are fanned out. The edges of the pages are usually gilded (or marbled) so that the closed book shows no trace whatever of the painting. This decorating gimmick, is intended to adorn the book object without direct regard to relating to the book's content has a playful now-you-see-it/now-you-don't character. Often the artist of the fore-edging is not known. This is a fine example of fore-edge painting.