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  2. Half-title - Wikipedia

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    Half-title page of Picturesque New Guinea (1887), with ornamentation above and below the title. The half-title or bastard title is a page carrying nothing but the title of a book—as opposed to the title page, which also lists subtitle, author, publisher and edition. The half-title is usually counted as the first page (p. i) in a printed book ...

  3. Title page - Wikipedia

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    The title page of a book, thesis or other written work is the page at or near the front which displays its title, subtitle, author, publisher, and edition, often artistically decorated. (A half title , by contrast, displays only the title of a work.)

  4. Book design - Wikipedia

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    The first page of the actual text of a book is the opening page, which often incorporates special design features, such as initials. Arabic numbering starts at this first page. If the text is introduced by a second half title or opens with a part title, the half title or part title counts as page one.

  5. Outline of books - Wikipedia

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    Leaf – a single sheet, the left-hand page of which is the verso, and right-hand page is the recto Pageone side of a leaf of paper. Title page, often with the imprint page on its verso. Half-title; Ink – a type of pigment used to write letters upon the pages of a book; Paper – a material that easily absorbs ink, made from ground plant ...

  6. Page (paper) - Wikipedia

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    describes a book with two sections, where section one contains 11 pages numbered using uppercase Roman numerals, and section two contains 2050 pages numbered using Arabic numerals; the total number of pages is thus 2061 pages, plus any unnumbered pages. If the book contains too many separately-numbered sections, too many unnumbered pages, or ...

  7. The Mersey Sound (anthology) - Wikipedia

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    The other books in the series were not given a specific title. The first edition of The Mersey Sound contains 128 pages, the half-title page being number 1. Henri is first with 44 pages (30 poems), then McGough with 32 pages (24 poems) and Patten with 31 pages (26 poems). Front cover of the 1983 revised edition

  8. Endpaper - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the front endpapers precede the title page and the text, whereas the back endpapers follow the text. [2] Booksellers sometimes refer to the front endpaper as FEP. Before mass printing in the 20th century, it was common for the endpapers of books to have paper marbling. Sometimes the endpapers are used for maps or other relevant information.

  9. Recto and verso - Wikipedia

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    Pages 1 and 16, for example, are printed on the same side of the physical sheet of paper, combining recto and verso sides of different leaves. The number of pages in a book using this binding technique must thus be a multiple of four, and the number of leaves must be a multiple of two, but unused pages are typically left unnumbered and uncounted.