the word frontispiece comes from the French, which was originally an architectural term referring to the decorative facade of a building.
palazzo Doge, venice, 1419
in books, a frontispiece refers to a decorative or informative illustration facing a book's title page (being the verso opposite the recto title page).
Thierleben (Life of Animals) first published in the 1860s by Alfred Edmund Brehm
a milton poem by william blake, 1810
the raven, by Edgar Allan Poe, illustrated by Manet, 1978
No comments:
Post a Comment