0 the picture that faces the page of a book with the title on:
A photograph of the author forms the frontispiece to the book.
The colour frontispiece and dust-jacket are enlargements of the presentation picture in the unique autograph copy of that work.
All four appear commonly on covers, title pages, and frontispieces of lyric volumes published in the 1820s through 1850s.
A fine frontispiece and some sterling narrative carried forward the stock 'encounter-trope' of naval exploration hagiography in a new configuration.
Thus, for instance, the principal palace entrances are comparable to a manuscript frontispiece.
The map in the frontispiece is extremely poor.
Pp. 882 incl. colour frontispiece and 13 figs.
Within the 1641 frontispiece, the woodcut emerges not simply as a convenient method of reproduction and imitation, but as a distinctive creative form in its own right.
Pp. 176 incl. colour frontispiece and endpapers and 33 ills.