title-page

See also: title page and titlepage

English

Noun

title-page (plural title-pages)

1. Alternative form of title page.
   • 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:

     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.

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

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

   • 1830 September, Thomas De Quincey, “Review of Life of Richard Bentley, D.D. by J.H. Monk, D.D.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine‎^[1], volume 28, number 171, p. 446, footnote:

     […] 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.

   • 1836, Frederick Marryat, Mr Midshipman Easy:

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

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

     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.

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

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

   • 1983, The Book Collector - Volume 32, page 52:

     So many copies have come down to us in which the title-page of the preliminaries is miscancelled, indeed, that it is surprising that we know of only one in which the earlier title-page is bound as printed.