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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 ...
The title page often shows the title of the work, the person or body responsible for its intellectual content, and the imprint, which contains the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication. [2] Particularly in paperback editions it may contain a shorter title than the cover or lack a descriptive subtitle.
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.
A copyright page with the printer's key underlined. This version of the book is the eighteenth printing. The printer's key, also known as the number line, is a line of text printed on a book's copyright page (often the verso of the title page, especially in English-language publishing) used to indicate the print run of the
Korean book-Jikji-Selected Teachings of Buddhist Sages and Seon Masters-1377. Book size – the dimensions of a book; Leaf – a single sheet, the left-hand page of which is the verso, and right-hand page is the recto Page – one side of a leaf of paper. Title page, often with the imprint page on its verso. Half-title
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A page is one side of a leaf (a sheet or half-sheet) of paper, parchment or other material (or electronic media) in a book, magazine, newspaper, or other collection of sheets, on which text or illustrations can be printed, written or drawn, to create documents.
In early printed books the colophon, when present, was a brief description of the printing and publication of the book, giving some or all of the following data: the date of publication, the place of publication or printing (sometimes including the address as well as the city name), the name(s) of the printer(s), and the name(s) of the ...