frontispiece
Other forms: frontispieces
A frontispiece is an illustration on one of a book's first pages, usually opposite the title page. Some editions of Winnie the Pooh include a map of the Hundred Acre Wood as a frontispiece.
Children's books and classics are most likely to have a frontispiece, which is considered a bit old-fashioned today. Your beloved copy of The Wind in the Willows or a collectible edition of Little Women probably include a frontispiece — and the volumes in your Harry Potter collection might as well. In architecture, a frontispiece is something that frames or decorates the entrance to a building. What these two kinds of frontispieces have in common is being located in the front of something.
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front illustration facing the title page of a booktype of:frontthe side that is seen or that goes first
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an ornamental facade
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From amanuensis to author, foreword to frontispiece, there's more to books than just reading them. Here are some of the words we use to talk about books, book parts, and book people.
This biography, which won the Robert F. Sibert Medal, recounts the life of Maria Merian, a naturalist who studied insects.
Based on lectures that Woolf delivered at Cambridge, this essay argues that women need financial independence and private spaces in order to create literature.