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• n  an ornamental facade
• n  front illustration facing the title page of a book

• A novel that starts with the map of an imaginary tropical island makes a delicious promise of enchantmentas every reader knows who ever pored over the frontispiece chart in .
• Naturalists took one look at the grimacing, bewhiskered frontispiece and decided that the whole book was beneath contempt.
• Last week the new Almanach bore as a frontispiece the round olive face of fat King Fuad I of Egypt.

News & Articles

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• National Museum of Women in the Arts presents first major museum exhibition of Audrey Niffenegger
  Frontispiece from The Three Incestuous Sisters. Aquatint, 1985–98, 12 ? x 16 x 2 ¼ (book); 12 ¼ x 30 in. (aquatints). Edition 10/10, Collection of Audrey Niffenegger, Chicago, Illinois.
  June 22, 2013 - Art Daily

Quotes

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• Simon Jenkins in Telegraph.co.uk
  Sir Simon, in an article on the coming anniversary, wrote: "Most of the staff [in my day] thought the frontispiece sexist, bourgeois and not long for this world. It has outlived all our expectations."