Title page

formation about the publication of the book, including

its copyright, is frequently printed on the verso of the title page. Also often included there are the ISBN and a
"printers key", also known as the number line, which
indicates the printing status.
The rst printed books or incunabula did not have title
pages. The text would begin on the rst page, and the
book would have to be identied by the initial words or
incipit.

2 Title pages in papers and a thesis

The title page of a thesis or essay is the works rst page.
It lists the title of the work and the name of the author.
In the case of an academic paper, the title page also lists
class information (such as the course name and number),
identication information (such as the student number),
the date, name of the professor, and name of the institution. The title page is not numbered.
Title pages are not required in all citation styles; instead,
some styles require that the same information is placed at
the top of the essays rst page.
The title page for a thesis contains the full title, the
authors name and academic credentials, the degreegranting faculty and department name, the name of
The title page of a book, thesis or other written work is the university and date of graduation, and the universal
the page at or near the front which displays its title. This copyright symbol. The thesis title page is usually page
page contains only the title in a fashion similar to the rest i, but is not numbered; the abstract (page ii) is the rst
of the text within the book.
numbered page.
Woodcut title page of a 1599 Bible (actually printed 1633).

Title pages in books

3 See also

The title page is one of the most important parts of the

"front matter" or preliminaries of a book, as the data
on it and its verso (together known as the title leaf) are
used to establish the title proper and usually, though not
necessarily, the statement of responsibility and the data
relating to publication.[1] This determines the way the
book is cited in library catalogs and academic references.

Book design
Half title
Printers key

The title page often shows the title of the work, the person or body responsible for its intellectual content, and
the imprint, which contains the name and address of the
books publisher and its date of publication.[2] Particularly in paperback editions it may contain a shorter title
than the cover or lack a descriptive subtitle. Further in-

4 References
[1] Gorman, Michael and Paul W. Winkler (eds.), AngloAmerican cataloguing rules, 2nd ed., London, Library Association, 1978, 'Glossary', p.571

[2] Cowley, John Duncan (1970), Bibliographical description

and cataloguing, New York: Burt Franklin, p. 2932, 77
88

External links
Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF),
which contains material on title pages
GLASGOW UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, SPECIAL
COLLECTIONS DEPARTMENT, Book of the
Month
High resolution scans of title pages

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