Frontispiece

Word FRONTISPIECE
Character 12
Hyphenation fron tis piece
Pronunciations /ˈfɹʌn.tɪˌspiːs/

Definitions and meanings of "Frontispiece"

What do we mean by frontispiece?

An illustration that faces or immediately precedes the title page of a book, book section, or magazine. noun

A title page. noun

A façade, especially an ornamental façade. noun

A small ornamental pediment, as on top of a door or window. noun

To furnish with a frontispiece.

To use as a frontispiece: as, to frontispiece a map.

That which is seen in front, or which directly presents itself to the eye. noun

A print or engraving placed in front of the title of a book. noun

The principal front of a building. noun

An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself. noun

An illustration that is on the page before the title page of a book, a section of one, or a magazine. noun

The title page of a book. noun

A façade, especially an ornamental one. noun

A small pediment of which is ornamental, especially on the top of a window or door. noun

Front illustration facing the title page of a book noun

An ornamental facade noun

An illustration that is on the page before the title page of a book, a section of one, or a magazine.

The title page of a book.

A façade, especially an ornamental one.

A small ornamental pediment, especially at the top of a window or door.

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The word "frontispiece" in example sentences

Blair's The Grave, "The Reunion of the Soul & the Body" and "The Soul hovering over the Body reluctantly parting with Life" (56-58), but does not reproduce or specifically discuss "Death's Door," and includes nine facsimiles: the frontispiece is a reduction of ❋ Unknown (2006)

My copy has two titles, the first being an engraved one, with ten small circles round it, containing hieroglyphical figures, and an engraved frontispiece, which is repeated in the volume, with some other cuts. ❋ Various (N/A)

At the sale of the original drawings executed by 'Phiz' for _Martin Chuzzlewit_ this frontispiece, which is an epitome of the salient characters and scenes in the novel, was sold for £35. ❋ James T. Lightwood (N/A)

The portrait of Signorelli in the frontispiece is the half of this painting. ❋ Maud Cruttwell (N/A)

The frontispiece is a coarsely executed wood cut, divided into six compartments, and representing the six days of the creation. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)

The frontispiece was a coloured picture of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden surrounded by amiable lions, benevolent tigers, ingratiating bears and leopards and wolves. ❋ Compton MacKenzie (1927)

The frontispiece is a picture of the author, the Rev.C. R. Dawson, Cumberland, Md., and Rev. Gustave H. Caution, assistant to us, by the appointment of his Bishop. ❋ George Freeman (1922)

The frontispiece was a photograph of Captain Jim himself, standing at the door of the lighthouse, looking across the gulf. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Bibliography of his works, of which the frontispiece is a portrait of ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

'Phiz' for Martin Chuzzlewit this frontispiece, which is an epitome of the salient characters and scenes in the novel, was sold for L35. ❋ Lightwood, James T (1912)

The frontispiece is a reproduction of Giorgione's "Shepherd" at Hampton ❋ Bernard Berenson (1912)

It is clearly shewn in the frontispiece, which is a reproduction of Daniel King's engraving of Black Friars 'Hall, probably executed about 1650. ❋ George A. Stephen (1907)

The frontispiece is a pen-and-ink sketch of “the Author at the Age of 30 (A.D. 1880),” such as Field frequently drew of himself; the symbolic emblem, which takes the place of a dedication, was a string of link sausages “in the similitude of a laurel wreath,” representing “A Chicago Literary Circle,” and the tail-piece was a gallows, to mark ❋ Thompson, Slason (1901)

Of the three illustrations, the frontispiece is a photographic reproduction of one of Danckaerts's pen-and-ink sketches accompanying the diary. ❋ Jasper Danckaerts (1898)

This frontispiece, which is prettily illuminated, occurs in Virtue's edition of the "Pilgrim's Progress"; the book itself is not rare, but it is hardly procurable in perfect condition, for the reason that the colored plate is so pleasing to the eye that few have been able to resist the temptation to make away with it. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Our frontispiece is a detail of a double portrait representing, in half-length figures, the painter and a patron, John Digby, Earl of ❋ Unknown (1893)

The portrait which forms the frontispiece is a reproduction of a photograph taken by Professor F.E. Lloyd and Dr. W.A. Cannon during the visit of Professor de Vries at the Desert Botanical Laboratory of the ❋ Hugo De Vries (1891)

The illustrations throughout are excellent, but the coloured geological map which serves as a frontispiece is a model of what such a map should be, avoiding the opposite evils of overcrowding and meagreness. ❋ Joseph Lievesley Beeston (1890)

The frontispiece is a large folding plate of the village from the Short Lythe, an ambitious summer landscape, representing the church, White's own house, and a few cottages against the broad sweep of the hangar. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)

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