title-page

plural title-pages

1. alternativeAlternative form of title page.

   He had gone through the work from the title-page to the finis at least forty times, and had just commenced it over again.

   1836, Frederick Marryat, Mr Midshipman Easy

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   A bibliognoste, from the Greek, is one knowing in title-pages and colophons, and in editions; the place and year when printed; the presses whence issued; and all the minutiæ of a book.

   1823, I[saac] D’Israeli, “A Bibliognoste”, in A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature: Consisting of Researches in Literary, Biographical, and Political History; of Critical and Philosophical Inquiries; and of Secret History, volume III, London: John Murray, page 133

   But besides this imperfect beginningless story, entitled "William Montgomery," we find in the volume another, of which the title-page gives no hint.

   1829 February, Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, “Article XIII”, in The Monthly Review, volume 10, page 305

   […] at a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the Fancy, on a copy occurring, not one of the company but ourself knew what the mystical title-page meant.

   1830 September, Thomas De Quincey, “Review of Life of Richard Bentley, D.D. by J.H. Monk, D.D.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 28, number 171, p. 446, footnote

   This little story before us is an amplification of that clever enigma, and though essentially a story for children, as its title-page tells us, would beguile many a one much older of a half-hour in the evening.

   1879, Henry C. Linstead, The marvellous house; or, The bishop's enigma, page 91

   The first Cambridge edition of the Authorised Version was printed by him in 1629, a fine book with an elaborately engraved title-page.

   1921, S[ydney] C[astle] Roberts, A History of the Cambridge University Press 1521–1921, Cambridge: at the University Press, page 54