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Title-page means Alternative form of title page..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Alternative form of title page..
A bibliognoste, from the Greek, is one knowing in title-pages and colophons, and in editions; the place and year when printed; the presses whence issued; and all the minutiæ of a book.
But besides this imperfect beginningless story, entitled "William Montgomery," we find in the volume another, of which the title-page gives no hint.
[…] at a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the Fancy, on a copy occurring, not one of the company but ourself knew what the mystical title-page meant.
He had gone through the work from the title-page to the finis at least forty times, and had just commenced it over again.
This little story before us is an amplification of that clever enigma, and though essentially a story for children, as its title-page tells us, would beguile many a one much older of a half-hour in the evening.
The first Cambridge edition of the Authorised Version was printed by him in 1629, a fine book with an elaborately engraved title-page.
So many copies have come down to us in which the title-page of the preliminaries is miscancelled, indeed, that it is surprising that we know of only one in which the earlier title-page is bound as printed.
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Title-page means Alternative form of title page..
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A bibliognoste, from the Greek, is one knowing in title-pages and colophons, and in editions; the place and year when printed; the presses whence issued; and all the minutiæ of a book.
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