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...

Look up frontispiece in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Frontispiece may refer to: Frontispiece (books), a decorative illustration facing a book's title...

John Barr by Thomas Gulliver Book collecting Lithograph Library classification Printer's mark Title page Book frontispiece RFID Percy Neville Barnett,...

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...

Manfaʿ. — Kitāb naʿt al-ḥayawān. Figures of authority are presented in frontispiece 3 and 4, a "Ruler-Prince" with armed attendants and a "Scholar-Prince"...

Bolanyo (cover), Way & Williams, 1897 Butler, W. M. – Whist Reference Book (frontispiece), Yorston, 1898 Grahame, K. – The Golden Age, Lane, 1900 Irving, W...

Book frontispiece from Buzzacott's Complete American and Canadian Sportsman's Encyclopedia of Valuable instruction, with photograph of the author in 1913...

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...

In architecture, the term frontispiece is used to describe the principal face of the building, usually referring to a combination of elements that frame...

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...

Arrest engraving of Marie-Anne Lenormand from the book frontispiece of Les Souvenirs prophétiques d'une sibylle sur les causes secrètes de son arrestation...

moved south to avoid tuberculosis. There she found material for her first book. In 1835, she travelled to Turkey with her father, on a trip which inspired...

Élet by Steven Brust Stopp't-Clock Yard by Susanna Clarke Afterword: Death by Tori Amos Cover by Dave McKean Frontispiece by Clive Barker v t e v t e...

Thomas W. Dorr, leader of the 1842 rebellion, as pictured in an 1844 book frontispiece Chepachet antique store Chepachet Free Baptist Church, c. 1905. The...

collection of recipes in the book La Cuisine de Monsieur Momo, Célibataire (1930), along with a color book frontispiece of Toulouse Lautrec Cooking by...

A pop-up book is any book with three-dimensional pages, often with elements that pop up as a page is turned. The terminology serves as an umbrella term...

Home is a book published in 1869, co-authored by Catharine Beecher and her sister Harriet Beecher Stowe. It expands upon Catharine’s 1841 book, A Treatise...

his Russian friend Sobolevsky, that most of the work was fabricated. The book was not commercially successful, selling only a dozen copies, but the poems...

commonly used in conjunction with a book frontispiece, but were also sometimes used with illustrations elsewhere within the book if the bookbinder felt they were...

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...

Artists' books (or book arts or book objects) are works of art that take the form of a book. They are often published in small editions, though they are...

The Book of Revelation or Book of the Apocalypse is the final book of the New Testament (and therefore the final book of the Christian Bible). Written...

adventures before being rescued; some refuse rescue and remain on the island. The book is the most successful of a large number of "Robinsonade" novels that were...

for the book's famous frontispiece in the géometrique style which Bosse himself had refined. It is similar in organisation to the frontispiece of Hobbes'...

secure commissions for his students, and Ashley's early work included book frontispieces and illustrations for magazines such as The Delineator, Leslies, McClure's...

pp. 58–59. Humble 2006, p. 11. Acton 1845, pp. 548–553. Acton 1857, Frontispiece. Hardy 2011, pp. 170 and 188. Acton 1857, pp. vii–xii. Lieffers 2012...

("We protect her; she supports us"). Classical and military dress, book frontispiece, c. 1670 Alternative classical style, at the national monument, Plein...

blocks, a seven-block coat of arms by Hans Weiditz (1520) used as a book frontispiece. Jost de Negker's business was continued until at least the mid 1560s...

several of the plates which illustrated it are dated to 1670.: 43  The frontispiece, by Gérard de Lairesse, depicts Nimrod, dressed as a Roman soldier, studying...

Gateways to the Book: Frontispieces and Title Pages in Early Modern Europe. Leiden: Brill. Fowler, Alastair. 2017. The Mind of the Book: Pictorial Title...