This librarian bends the pages of an old book and reveals an ancient and spectacular secret

by Robert Maggi

November 27, 2015

This librarian bends the pages of an old book and reveals an ancient and spectacular secret
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This is known as fore-edge painting, and is a technique that dates back to the mid-seventeenth century. With this incredible work you can get some real paintings on the edge of books' pages, however, visible only by bending them. Most experts could even get to the double square, which revealed a different picture if bent in one direction or another.

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