Book frontispiece

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General page layout and typography choices Front and back covers Endpapers Front matter Front cover Half title or Bastard title Frontispiece Title page Edition notice Table of contents List of figures List of tables Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Dedication Prologue Body chapters Back matter Epilogue Extro/Outro Afterword Conclusion Postscript Appendix/Addendum Glossary Bibliography Index Colophon

A frontispiece is an elaborate decorative illustration that appears facing the title page of the book. Use of the word to indicate the title page is now obsolete (Oxford English Dictionary). In modern usage, the frontispiece is the verso opposite the recto title page.

Elaborate engraved title pages were formerly in frequent use, especially in Bibles and in scholarly books, and many of these pages are masterpieces of the art of engraving.

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• Book design