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  • Book frontispiece
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  • A frontispiece is a decorative illustration facing a book's title page. The frontispiece is the verso (left-hand page) opposite the recto title page. Elaborate engraved title pages were in frequent use, especially in Bibles and in scholarly books, and many are masterpieces of engraving. (Use meaning the title page itself is obsolete according to the Oxford English Dictionary.)
  • A frontispiece is a decorative illustration facing a book's title page. The frontispiece is the verso opposite the recto title page. Elaborate engraved frontispieces were in frequent use, especially in Bibles and in scholarly books, and many are masterpieces of engraving. The word may also refer to the title page itself, but this meaning is archaic.
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  • A frontispiece is a decorative illustration facing a book's title page. The frontispiece is the verso (left-hand page) opposite the recto title page. Elaborate engraved title pages were in frequent use, especially in Bibles and in scholarly books, and many are masterpieces of engraving. (Use meaning the title page itself is obsolete according to the Oxford English Dictionary.)
  • A frontispiece is a decorative illustration facing a book's title page. The frontispiece is the verso opposite the recto title page. Elaborate engraved frontispieces were in frequent use, especially in Bibles and in scholarly books, and many are masterpieces of engraving. The word may also refer to the title page itself, but this meaning is archaic.