| 单词 | fore-edge painting | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasfore-edge painting   The front or outer edge; esp. of a leaf in a book, or of the book itself.  fore-edge painting (see quot. 1960). ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > parts of book > 			[noun]		 > fore-edge face1876 fore-edge1880 circuit edge1905 society > communication > book > parts of book > 			[noun]		 > fore-edge > painting on fore-edge painting1912 1665    R. Hooke Micrographia 174  				The fore-edge..is arm'd with a multitude of little bristles. 1880    Printing Trades Jrnl. No. 32. 1  				To cut heads, tails, and fore-edges at one time. 1886    R. Willis  & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. III. 420  				The book is placed on the shelf with the fore-edge turned outwards. 1892    J. W. Zaehnsdorf Binding of Bk. 14  				Catch each succeeding leaf up by the forefinger on the top corner as near the for~edge as possible. 1912    A. J. Philip Business of Bookbinding 199  				Foredge painting, pictures found, usually in old books, on the fore-edge of books. 1938    Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Dec. 808/2  				A seventeenth-century English Bible..with a signed fore-edge painting. 1960    G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 143/2  				Fore-edge painting, a water colour painted on the fanned out fore-edge of a book. 1969    Canad. Antiques Collector Apr. 23/1  				Fore-edge paintings in rare books provide not only delight to collectors but mysteries in more ways than one. < as lemmas  | 
	
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