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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.
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. [1]
Colophons are traditionally printed at the ends of books (see History below for the origin of the word), but sometimes the same information appears elsewhere (when it may still be referred to as colophon) and many modern (post-1800) books bear this information on the title page [2] or on the verso of the title leaf, [3] which is sometimes ...
The title "page" is a consequence of a bound book having pages. Until books had covers (another development in the history of the book), the top page was highly visible. To make the content of the book easy to ascertain, there came the custom of printing on the top page a title, a few words in larger letters than the body, and thus readable ...
The title line of a Media page is File:pagename. (This title is only helpful in some cases.) A Special page follows no such rules. Its title displays no namespace, and can change its pagename. See for example the title of any page listed at Special:SpecialPages. A virtual page is not a page name stored in the database as wikitext.
Where possible, use a title covering all cases: for example, Endianness covers the concepts "big-endian" and "little-endian". Where no reasonable overarching title is available, it is permissible to construct an article title using "and", as in Promotion and relegation , Hellmann's and Best Foods , Tropical storms Amanda and Cristobal and ...
format – page format, i.e. Broadsheet, Berliner, Tabloid, Compact; school – for school newspapers; owner – or owners, name of the company, person or family which owns the newspaper; founder – or founders, name of the company or person who founded or directs the newspaper, if |owner= is not appropriate (for instance, in the case of some ...
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 right-hand, or recto page of a book. [1] In some ancient editions or in modern luxury editions the frontispiece features thematic or allegorical elements, in others is the author's portrait that ...