Secret Fore-Edge Paintings Revealed
Yesterday tons of Redditors upvoted this link to secret fore-edge paintings, “Fore-edge painting, which is believed to date back as early as the 1650s, is a way of hiding a painting on the edge of a book so that it can only be seen when the pages are fanned out.”
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