Booktryst surveys fore-edge paintings.
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Willam Edwards' son Thomas (1762-1834) was likely responsible for many of the firm's fore-edge decorations, especially the even more elaborate double fore edge paintings, in which the fore edge hides not one but two paintings, one appearing when the leaves are fanned to the left, the other when they are fanned to the right. Weber says that of the 3,000 or so paintings that he has examined, only between two and three per cent have two paintings fully covering the same edge. He says further that only an extremely small number of such double fore-edge paintings were executed after the death of Thomas Edwards in 1834, since “the skill and time involved in the execution of such painstaking work, and doubtless the subsequent difficulty of obtaining adequate remuneration for the additional labor involved" militated against their production.
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