title pages
Name the work
Title pages are the pages at the front of a book displaying the title, author, and publisher.
A single book has one title page, but the plural refers to the concept generally or to multiple books' title pages: The title pages of Victorian novels often included elaborate subtitles.
In academic writing, title pages present the work's title, author, institution, and date.
Pages before chapter one
- colophonBook's production statement
- imprintMark from applied pressure
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- epigraphPrefatory quotation
table of contents · acknowledgments · foreword · preface · introduction · frontispiece · verso · recto
Earliest European printed books
- manuscriptOriginal text before publication
- codexAncient bound manuscript
- folioSingle-fold page format
- quartoFour-leaf printing format
octavo · broadside · letterpress · Gutenberg · antiquarian · first edition · editio princeps · provenance
Arranging letters for display
- letteringStyled written characters
- layoutSpatial arrangement of elements
- vignetteBrief evocative description
- borderOuter edge or limit
ornament · device · woodcut · engraving · illumination · calligraphy · typeface · composition
frontmatter
Pages before chapter one
- colophonBook's production statement
- imprintMark from applied pressure
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
epigraph · table of contents · acknowledgments · foreword · preface · introduction · frontispiece · verso · recto · ISBN
incunabula
Earliest European printed books
- manuscriptOriginal text before publication
- codexAncient bound manuscript
- folioSingle-fold page format
quarto · octavo · broadside · letterpress · Gutenberg · antiquarian · first edition · editio princeps · provenance · bibliophile
typography
Arranging letters for display
- letteringStyled written characters
- layoutSpatial arrangement of elements
- vignetteBrief evocative description
border · ornament · device · woodcut · engraving · illumination · calligraphy · typeface · composition · whitespace
- lab notebooksentries, observations, procedures, raw data, data tables
- publishingpublishers, editors, editor, publishing house, books
- illustrationsillustration, drawings, engravings, etchings, lithographs
- cartographymaps, world map, atlas, globes, cartographers
- print historyprinting press, printing presses, printing houses, movable type, print shops
- rare booksGutenberg Bible, first edition, rare editions, rare books, first editions
title pagesbody text
Document's main prose
chapters · back matter · appendices · indices · endnotes
title pagesback matter
Supplementary pages following text
colophon · index · afterword · bibliography · endnotes
title pagessubject matter
Content under discussion
argument · story · exposition · analysis
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