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A popular treatise on the winds: Comprising the general motions of the atmosphere, monsoons, cyclones, tornadoes, waterspouts, hail-storms, etc.
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Over the course of the 17th century, the title page of a book came to be accompanied by an illustration on the facing page (known in Italian as
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page of a book. In some ancient editions or in modern luxury editions the frontispiece features thematic or
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showing the book or text being presented (by whom and to whom varies) was often used as a frontispiece.
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elements, in others is the author's portrait that appears as the frontispiece. In medieval
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in books is a decorative or informative illustration facing a book's
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Paris travel guide (1717). This is a special print dedicated to
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of a building. In the 17th century, in other languages as in
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that borrowed stylistic elements from architecture, such as
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Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures
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Self-Publishing Textbooks and Instructional Materials
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August Wilhelm, Herzog von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
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Frontispiece of the first edition of the memoirs of
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Frontispiece (books)
Frontispiece (disambiguation)

William Blake
Milton a Poem
title page
verso
recto
allegorical
illuminated manuscripts
presentation miniature
French
late Latin
Latin
synonymous
metoposcopy
architectural term
facade
Italian
engravings
columns
pediments
antiporta
folk etymology
A frontispiece and title page of Matthias Klostermayr's biography (1772)
Matthias Klostermayr
A portrait of Yung Wing used as the frontispiece of his 1909 book My Life in China and America
Yung Wing
Frontispiece to A popular treatise on the winds: Comprising the general motions of the atmosphere, monsoons, cyclones, tornadoes, waterspouts, hail-storms, etc. by William Ferrel (1904)
William Ferrel

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