The page at (or near) the beginning of a book that bears the title. Also fig.
a. 1613. Overbury, Charac., Meere Scholer, Wks. (1856), 89. In a word, he is the index of a man, and the title-page of a scholler,… much in profession, nothing in practice.
1630. R. Johnson’s Kingd. & Commw., A ij b. Our Title page acknowledges him to be that famous Botero, the Italian.
1651. Jer. Taylor, Serm. for Year, II. v. 57. Repentance is a great volume of duty; and Godly sorrow is but the frontispiece or title page.
1703. J. Tipper, in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 307. Upon the Title-page is the Picture of the Queen in copper.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., VIII. 333. The world’s all title-page, there’s no contents.
1830. D’Israeli, Chas. I., III. vii. 154. He had insisted … that his name should appear in the title-page.
