ˈtitle-page
The page at (or near) the beginning of a book which bears the title. Also fig.
| a 1613 Overbury Charac., Meere Scholer Wks. (1856) 89 In a word, he is the index of a man, and the title-page of a scholler,..much in profession, nothing in practice. 1630 R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. A ij b, Our Title page acknowledges him to be that famous Botero, the Italian. 1651 Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year II. v. 57 Repentance is a great volume of duty; and Godly sorrow is but the frontispiece or title page. 1703 J. Tipper in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 307 Upon the Title-page is the Picture of the Queen in copper. 1742 Young Nt. Th. viii. 333 The world's all title-page, there's no contents. 1830 D'Israeli Chas. I, III. vii. 154 He had insisted..that his name should appear in the title-page. |