Definition of "frontispiece" []

• An illustration that faces or immediately precedes the title page of a book, book section, or magazine. (noun)
• Architecture A façade, especially an ornamental façade. (noun)
• Architecture A small ornamental pediment, as on top of a door or window. (noun)
• Archaic A title page. (noun)

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• "Blair's The Grave, "The Reunion of the Soul & the Body" and "The Soul hovering over the Body reluctantly parting with Life" (56-58), but does not reproduce or specifically discuss "Death's Door," and includes nine facsimiles: the frontispiece is a reduction of"
• "At the sale of the original drawings executed by 'Phiz' for _Martin Chuzzlewit_ this frontispiece, which is an epitome of the salient characters and scenes in the novel, was sold for £35."
• "The portrait of Signorelli in the frontispiece is the half of this painting."