Artist Martin Frost keeps the rare tradition of fore edge painting alive with hidden images that appear only when book pages ...

Many of us who are avid readers often re-purchase fancy, hardcover versions of our favorite books. Often just to decorate our shelves. After all, these gilded hardcovers are sometimes works of art in ...

Brandeis University’s Special Collections is home to over 10,000 rare books, a host of treasures which includes myriad first editions, holy texts, incunabula, miniature books, illustrated manuscripts ...

An art history student has gone viral on TikTok for her incredible artwork: beautiful paintings on the edges of book pages. Maisie Jackson, 22, from England, has posted numerous videos on her TikTok ...

Swipe through social media, and you’ll likely come across a content creator holding an exclusive-looking book, the ends of its pages spray-painted a striking color or stenciled with wild designs. “Go ...

Maisie Jackson, 22, is studying art history in the United Kingdom. Jackson has gone viral on TikTok for displaying her fore-edge book paintings. Her fore-edge painting of Hogwarts across the entirety ...

Now you see it, now you don’t. The image is there when you fan the pages; it’s gone when the pages are relaxed. Can the edges of books reveal hidden paintings? The Cary Graphic Arts Collection at ...

A dozen volumes on display at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library are shelved side-by-side with their fore edges, not their spines, facing out. It is not a case of curatorial malpractice ...

The art world was preoccupied last week with a newly discovered van Gogh, but librarians at the University of Iowa recently showcased a neat find of their own: delicate landscape paintings hidden just ...