Title page
As a title page or title page, the cover page of a publication is called:
- In newspapers and magazines the first page ( title page the word is therefore common here ) and the front of the title page with the emblem of the journal, its logo and the current title picture
- For books, brochures or paperbacks on the first page ( half-title ), or the third or fifth ( both titles in the strict sense ): The page that calls the entire book title with subtitle and author and usually the publisher.
Accruals
Statements relating to the title page differentiations are observed.
Today's books usually have colored title pages or covers, on which the book title with a pleasing image, the title screen. In the book production of the protective envelope is spoken with the book or work title here on the cover or the front. However, the title page is part of the prelims ( book, brochure ) and / or title sheet ( newspaper / magazine ).
Title page in the front matter
The title page is part of the front matter and has its historical place on the third (right) side of the book block. On the verso of the half-title, so the title over to the second page, often used to be a frontispiece, today the site is mostly empty. On the back of the title page, so on page four of the book block, is the imprint on which all important data are noted around the book. The first page of the book block is called the half-title page, on her the title is usually stated in short form.
Entries on the title page
On the title page the most important bibliographic data are listed. In addition to the main and subtitle of the book, the author and / or publisher should be given with full name. Also, the publisher, place of publication and the year of publication should be there. Sometimes also the publisher Signet is shown. Also on the Frontispizseite are often data that belong to the title. This is usually the case when a tape is published in a book series. On this page, then the series title to find.
Function of the title page
The title page is " the foundation of modern bibliography and bibliographic record in the library and book trade catalogs Aryan ". With the help of indexing the book content directories can be created, making it possible to find specific literature with the help of keywords quickly. In addition, the cover serves to further orientation of the reader. To purchase a book, the title page is no longer decisive today. Here the design of the book cover or other protective envelope plays the biggest role.
History
In early printing the title page was the first printed page of the book. He was a frontispiece to upstream - an engraving or a woodcut books cheaper. Most bookbinders tied the frontispiece opposite the title page, so that it ( as in the example ) on the left and the cover was right. ( At times one defined here as " copper entitled" frontispiece, which repeats the title with the image or in the image. )
Function of the previous title page
The title page used to be, as long as books were sold unbound, above all, the most important page of the book to be sold. It has long been the first printed page of the book. Often you read on the front page just a single long, graphically subdivided sentence, the first called the title, summarizing what was offered in the book of information, the author or his pseudonym listed and graduated with the imprint: the details of the place of publication, the publisher and the pressure this year. Title pages were, a book came to offer top. The pages below were uncut and therefore allowed no inspection. Only the bookbinder cut it open. Customer oriented around the store therefore on the information presented by the title page. Today this function have taken over the back of the book with a short text or the blurb on the impact of the protective envelope flaps (if it is a hardcover or flaps ). Title leaves were also often printed in excess and posted in bookstores; they acted thus as a printed book advertising. From the 18th century then the title page upstream half-title page by the first page of the book block can claim.
Change of the title page
As with the 19th century, the sale finished bound books was the rule, came on dust jackets, which combined the original role of frontispiece and title page. The detailed information about the book are available today in the imprint, mostly on the back of the title page or at the end of the book. The information today librarianship, copyright, and the law demand a press publications, have become too large to be accommodated on the fronts of the title pages can; even additional information on the paper used and the font type, etc. found in some editions book their place here.
Special
When you print the early modern period, it may be interesting to completely " transcribe " title, that is, to write off the text of the title page, line by line, including uppercase and lowercase letters and mark each with a vertical line as newline. This allows it to recognize later, which contained information about the book at all, and stood by what words in the foreground ( the single large words that took a whole row to herself) - here with notation of Rotdruckes used:
A more detailed instructions for recording titles of the early modern period provides the article title shot.