Title pages

Eisenstein 1983 -- "Most studies of printing have, quite rightly, singled out the regular provision of title pages as the most significant new feature associated with the printed book format. How the title page contributed to the cataloguing of books and the bibliographer's craft scarcely needs to be spelled out. How it contributed to new habits of placing and dating, in general, does, I think, call for further thought."

See Richards and Schurink 2010 -- Scott-Warren's article

Bibliography

Pollard, A. W. Last Words on the History of the Title-Page. London: Nimmo, 1891.

De Vinne, Theodore Low. Title-pages As Seen by a Printer. New York: Grolier Club, 1901.

McKerrow, Ronald. Title-page Borders used in England and Scotland 1485-1640. 1932

Ferguson, F. S. Additions to Title-page Borders 1485-1640. 1936

Blanck, Jacob. The Title-page as Bibliographical Evidence. University of California, 1966.

Corbett, Margery. The Comely Frontispiece. 1979.

Smith, Margaret. The Title-page: Its Early Development 1460-1510. British Library, 2000.

Pettibon, Raymond. Turn to the Title-page. 2005

Fowler, Alastair. The Mind of the Book: Pictorial Title Pages. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.

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