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fore-edge|ˈfɔərɛdʒ|
[f. fore- prefix + edge.]
The front or outer edge; esp. of a leaf in a book, or of the book itself. fore-edge painting (see quot. 1960).
1665Hooke Microgr. 174 The fore-edge..is arm'd with a multitude of little bristles. 1880Print. Trades Jrnl. No. 32. 1 To cut heads, tails, and fore-edges at one time. 1886Willis & Clark Cambridge III. 420 The book is placed on the shelf with the fore-edge turned outwards. 1892J. W. Zaehnsdorf Binding of Bks. 14 Catch each succeeding leaf up by the forefinger on the top corner as near the for⁓edge as possible. 1912A. J. Philip Business of Bookbinding 199 Foredge painting, pictures found, usually in old books, on the fore-edge of books. 1938Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Dec. 808/2 A seventeenth-century English Bible..with a signed fore-edge painting. 1960G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 143/2 Fore-edge painting, a water colour painted on the fanned out fore-edge of a book. 1969Canad. Antiques Coll. Apr. 23/1 Fore-edge paintings in rare books provide not only delight to collectors but mysteries in more ways than one. |