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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. [1]
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. (A half title, by contrast, displays only the title of a work.)
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.
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.
It may lack endpapers, half-title, and even the title page. All defects must be noted. Poor describes a book that has the complete text but is so damaged that it is only of interest to a buyer who seeks a reading copy. If the damage renders the text illegible then the book is not even poor.
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In this picture, the recto page shown is of the following leaf in a book and hence comes next to the verso of the previous leaf. Right-to-left language books: recto is the front page, verso is the back page (vertical Chinese, vertical Japanese, Arabic, or Hebrew). In this picture, the recto page shown is of the following leaf in a book and ...
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