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A facsimile (from Latin fac simile, "to make alike") is a copy or reproduction of an old book, manuscript, map, art print, or other item of historical value that is as true to the original source as possible. It differs from other forms of reproduction by attempting to replicate the source as accurately as possible in scale, color, condition ...
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.
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 ...
1942 (original); 1979 (paperback); April 1995 (facsimile edition) Title given on the original 1942 edition (and facsimile's) title page as simply Superman ; The Adventures of... alternate title is from the original hardcover's dust jacket; the 1995 foreword by Roger Stern indicates that the 1979 facsimile edition was unauthorized.
Example: Oscar Wilde's play Salomé/Salome was first written in French (title: Salomé), but the first printed edition in English, of which the translation was supervised by the author, was Salome. Notwithstanding that later English editions variously had either Salomé or Salome on the title page, the Wikipedia article is at Salome.
Examples are Numbers 3:1, where a later (and incorrect) chapter division makes this verse a heading for the following chapter instead of interpreting it properly as a colophon or summary for the preceding two chapters, and Genesis 37:2a, a colophon that concludes the histories of Jacob.
Facsimile of a page written by 'Hand D', in all likelihood written by William Shakespeare Although some scholars took note of, and reproduced, Shakespeare's handwriting as early as the 18th century, [ 16 ] the paleographer Sir Edward Maunde Thompson wrote in 1916 that the subject of Shakespeare's handwriting had "never been subjected to a ...
The Brand New Monty Python Bok was the second book to be published by the British comedy troupe Monty Python. [1] Edited by Eric Idle , it was published by Methuen Books in 1973 and contained more print-style comic pieces than their first effort, Monty Python's Big Red Book .