A frontispiece in books is a decorative or informative illustration facing a book's title page, usually on the left-hand, or verso, page opposite the...
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Look up frontispiece in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Frontispiece may refer to: Frontispiece (books), a decorative illustration facing a book's title...
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Ex Libris (bookplate) (redirect from Book-Plates)
John Barr by Thomas Gulliver Book collecting Lithograph Library classification Printer's mark Title page Book frontispiece RFID Percy Neville Barnett,...
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Maxfield Parrish (section Book illustrator)
Bolanyo (cover), Way & Williams, 1897 Butler, W. M. – Whist Reference Book (frontispiece), Yorston, 1898 Grahame, K. – The Golden Age, Lane, 1900 Irving, W...
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1577-1650) Aeolus Allegory of Winter by Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter (1683) Book frontispiece of the sailing handbook "The light of navigation". (On the left side...
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Book frontispiece from Buzzacott's Complete American and Canadian Sportsman's Encyclopedia of Valuable instruction, with photograph of the author in 1913...
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In architecture, the term frontispiece is used to describe the principal face of the building, usually referring to a combination of elements that frame...
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fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's stories, The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895). He is the leader of the Seeonee pack of Indian wolves...
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nineteenth-century surgeon once wrote in a book's frontispiece, as "the emperor of all maladies, the king of terrors." The book weaves together Mukherjee's experiences...
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following the front free endpaper. Front matter – the first section of a book Frontispiece – a decorative illustration on the verso facing the title page Title...
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