half-title
Book's first title
A half-title is a page in a book bearing only the title, without the author's name or other information.
It typically appears before the full title page, serving as a transition from the front matter.
Some books have a second half-title after the front matter, just before the main text begins.
Book's introductory illustration
- flyleafBlank page in books
- prelimsEarly qualifying rounds
- rectoRight-hand book page
- versoLeft-hand book page
colophon · imprint · gutter · spine · binding · hardcover · paperback · dust-jacket
Lack of complexity
- minimalismAesthetic of reduction
- understatedDeliberately minimized in expression
- eleganceRefined, graceful quality
- restraintControl over impulses
whitespace · typography · sparse · unadorned · clean · functional · streamlined · stark
frontispiece
Book's introductory illustration
verso · colophon · imprint · gutter · spine · binding · hardcover · paperback · dust-jacket · typesetting
simplicity
Lack of complexity
- minimalismAesthetic of reduction
- understatedDeliberately minimized in expression
- eleganceRefined, graceful quality
restraint · whitespace · typography · sparse · unadorned · clean · functional · streamlined · stark · plain
- book collectingbibliophiles, first editions, rare books, first edition, antiquarian
- bookbindingbookbinding, bookbinder, sewing, hand-bound, leather repair
- Victorian booksfirst editions, triple-deckers, Victorian novels, penny dreadfuls, serialized fiction
- beginningsbegin, beginning, start, first, opening
- book tradebook dealers, bookselling, bookseller, publisher, bookshops