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In newer books, the dedication is located on a "dedication page" on its own, usually on the recto page after the main title page inside the front matter. It can occupy one or multiple lines depending on its importance. It can also be "in a longer version as a dedication letter or dedication preface at the book's beginning". [6]
It usually appears in modern books on the verso of the title page, but in some books is placed at the end (see Back matter). Dedication: Author: A dedication page is a page in a book that precedes the text, in which the author names the person or people for whom he/she has written the book. Epigraph: Author: A phrase, quotation, or poem.
The epigraphs to the preamble of Georges Perec's Life: A User's Manual (La Vie mode d'emploi) and to the book as a whole warn the reader that tricks are going to be played and that all will not be what it seems. Epigraph and dedication page, The Waste Land. J. K. Rowling's novels frequently begin with epigraphs relating to the themes explored.
The book cover visible is Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved. Josh Gross at Rediscovered Bookshop in Boise, Idaho, at the booksigning of his memoir The Funeral Papers in August 2016. Book signing is the affixing of a signature to the title page or flyleaf of a book by its author.
Recto page from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497). The canons of page construction are historical reconstructions, based on careful measurement of extant books and what is known of the mathematics and engineering methods of the time, of manuscript-framework methods that may have been used in Medieval- or Renaissance-era book design to divide a page into pleasing proportions.
Title page of the 1925 first edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 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.
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.
When a book is printed, the pages are laid out on the plate so that after the printed sheet is folded the pages will be in the correct sequence. Books tend to be manufactured nowadays in a few standard sizes. The sizes of books are usually specified as "trim size": the size of the page after the sheet has been folded and trimmed. The standard ...