Shakespeare

The edge of this large leather-bound book of Shakespeare's works has been decorated with a watercolour twin fore-edge painting. A fore-edge painting is a type of book decoration in which watercolour decorations are painted inside the page edge and are only visible when the book is open or the pages fanned. On the left is a scene from A Midsummers Night's Dream, the middle section features the Globe Theatre where Shakespeare's plays were performed, and on the right is a scene from The Merchant of Venice.