Frontispiece

After the "bastard title" (page 1), the frontispiece is the page (page 2) that is opposite the title page (page 3) and is often designed with an allegorical representation or a portrait of the author. Sometimes, frontispiece can also mean the illustration decorating the title page.

 

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WHERE? In our store in Regensburg's Old Town.

We have been running a specialist store for facsimiles for nearly 15 years in Regensburg's Old Town, just opposite the "Schottenportal" of the Romanesque Scots Monastery of St. Jacob at Jakobstraße 6.