0 a page at the front of a book on which you find the name of the book, the writer, and the publisher
1 a page at the front of a book giving the name of the book and its writer and publisher
Secondly, printed pamphlets had by convention a lengthy title page, where the recipient's status could be described in detail.
A very different, emblematic drawing preceded the whole text and even the title page.
Yet why bother to craft such an elaborate enigma for the title page?
The title page (not illustrated here) is dominated by two large standing figures.
Nor are they present in the reproduced image of the manuscript title page.
On a later state of the title page, the missing '4' has been supplied.
What is more, the title page of the book does not contain the same promise of a longitude solution as found in the newspaper ad.
Presumably, the only fact that the enticingly indeterminate title page made clear to readers was that something peculiar was going on.
