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English translation: preliminary leaf
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|  Selected response from: Christian Schoenberg United States Local time: 20:40 | ||||||
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| 4 +1 | preliminary leaf |
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| 4 | cover page |
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| 3 +1 | flyleaf |
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cover page Explanation: A cover page is the page that has some information leading into the rest of the pages. |
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peer agreement (net): +1preliminary leaf Explanation: Hej Laura, One of my books from my bibliography class (back when...), Philip Gaskell's A NEW INTRODUCTION TO BIBLIOGRAPHY (Oxford: Clarendon, 1985), pp. 52-53 has a term that might cover what you are looking for. He calls it a 'preliminary leaf' - it can be a blank leaf, but it can also include the title page, the author's (or publisher's) prefatory matter, and sometimes a table of contents. In other words, what we more commonly call front matter, but less specific (I guess). Bill's phrase might be equally applicable - Gaskell has that as a binder-specific term - as blank leaves designed to give additional protection to the end pages of the bound book. The OED has fly-leaf as "a blank leaf at the beginning or end, but esp. at the beginning, of a book; the blank leaf of a circular, etc." . . . 1888 Burgon, Lives 12 Gd. Men I. i. 26. On the fly-leaf of the first volume...is found the following memorandum." Best, and thanks for a good question, Christian www.tollund.com |
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peer agreement (net): +1flyleaf Explanation: I think this is what it will be, Laura. It's a page between the cover and the first "real" pages (i.e. with the content, title, table of contents) just to make the book look better. Often the place where one would put one's name, but left blank when the book is originally printed. See quotation below, taken from the weblink. It ALSO has the botanical meaning! :-) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 11 mins (2007-09-23 12:17:24 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Looking again at your comments in the question, this is probably an page which may in fact COPY the cover page. I'd still call that first page the flyleaf. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 10 hrs (2007-09-23 22:16:40 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I found this link after Christian's note: http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/dt/dt2664.html So I think you should probably use his suggestion instead. Example sentence(s):
Reference: http://www.ilab.org/db/books221.html |
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