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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/F._Scott_Fitzgerald%2C_The_Great_Gatsby%2C_1925%2C_title_page.jpg/330px-F._Scott_Fitzgerald%2C_The_Great_Gatsby%2C_1925%2C_title_page.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/F._Scott_Fitzgerald%2C_The_Great_Gatsby%2C_1925%2C_title_page.jpg/440px-F._Scott_Fitzgerald%2C_The_Great_Gatsby%2C_1925%2C_title_page.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1159" data-file-height="1837" /></a><figcaption>Title page of the 1925 first edition of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby" title="The Great Gatsby">The Great Gatsby</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald" title="F. Scott Fitzgerald">F. Scott Fitzgerald</a> </figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>title page</b> of a <a href="/wiki/Book" title="Book">book</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thesis" title="Thesis">thesis</a> or other written work is the page at or near the front which displays its <a href="/wiki/Title_(publishing)" title="Title (publishing)">title</a>, subtitle, author, publisher, and edition, often artistically decorated. (A <a href="/wiki/Half_title" class="mw-redirect" title="Half title">half title</a>, by contrast, displays only the title of a work.) </p><p>The title page is one of the most important parts of the "<a href="/wiki/Front_matter" class="mw-redirect" title="Front matter">front matter</a>" or "preliminaries" of a book, as the data on it and its <a href="/wiki/Verso" class="mw-redirect" title="Verso">verso</a> (together known as the "title leaf") are used to establish the "title proper and usually, though not necessarily, the statement of responsibility and the data relating to publication".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This determines the way the book is cited in library catalogs and academic references. </p><p>The title page often shows the title of the work, the person or body responsible for its intellectual content, and the imprint, which contains the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication.<sup id="cite_ref-Cowley1939_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cowley1939-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Particularly in paperback editions it may contain a shorter title than the cover or lack a descriptive <a href="/wiki/Subtitle_(titling)" title="Subtitle (titling)">subtitle</a>. Further information about the publication of the book, including its <a href="/wiki/Copyright" title="Copyright">copyright</a> information, is frequently printed on the verso of the title page. Also often included there are the <a href="/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" class="mw-redirect" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> and a "<a href="/wiki/Printer%27s_key" title="Printer's key">printer's key</a>", also known as the "number line", which indicates the <a href="/wiki/Edition_(book)" title="Edition (book)">print run</a> to which the volume belongs. </p><p>The first printed books, or <i><a href="/wiki/Incunabula" class="mw-redirect" title="Incunabula">incunabula</a></i>, did not have title pages: the text simply begins on the first page, and the book is often identified by the initial words—the <i><a href="/wiki/Incipit" title="Incipit">incipit</a></i>—of the text proper. Other older books may have bibliographic information on the <a href="/wiki/Colophon_(publishing)" title="Colophon (publishing)">colophon</a> at the end of the book.<sup id="cite_ref-Cowley1939_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cowley1939-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Bulla Cruciatae contra Turcos</i> (1463) is the earliest use of a title on the first page.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Margaret M. Smith's <i>The Title-Page, Its Early Development, 1460-1510</i> <sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> provides the genesis and development of the title page.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Contamination_of_historic_books">Contamination of historic books</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Title_page&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Contamination of historic books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 19th century, <a href="/wiki/Paris_green" title="Paris green">Paris green</a> and similar <a href="/wiki/Arsenic" title="Arsenic">arsenic</a> pigments were often used on <a href="/wiki/Book_cover" title="Book cover">front and back covers</a>, top, fore and bottom edges, title pages, book decorations, and in printed or manual colorations of <a href="/wiki/Book_illustration" title="Book illustration">illustrations</a> of books. Since February 2024, several German libraries started to block public access to their stock of 19th century books to check for the degree of poisoning.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Pilz_2024_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pilz_2024-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Title_page&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colophon_(publishing)" title="Colophon (publishing)">Colophon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Book_design" title="Book design">Book design</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Half_title" class="mw-redirect" title="Half title">Half title</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Printer%27s_key" title="Printer's key">Printer's key</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Title_page&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gorman, Michael and Paul W. Winkler (eds.), Anglo-American cataloguing rules, 2nd ed., London, Library Association, 1978, 'Glossary', p.571</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Cowley1939-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Cowley1939_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Cowley1939_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFCowley1939" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/John_Duncan_Cowley" title="John Duncan Cowley">Cowley, John Duncan</a> (1939), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030342920?urlappend=%3Bseq=97"><i>Bibliographical description and cataloguing</i></a>, London: Grafton & Co., p. 77, <a href="/wiki/Hdl_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hdl (identifier)">hdl</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027%2Fmdp.39015030342920">2027/mdp.39015030342920</a>, <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/902053242">902053242</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Bibliographical+description+and+cataloguing&rft.place=London&rft.pages=77&rft.pub=Grafton+%26+Co.&rft.date=1939&rft_id=info%3Ahdl%2F2027%2Fmdp.39015030342920&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F902053242&rft.aulast=Cowley&rft.aufirst=John+Duncan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F2027%2Fmdp.39015030342920%3Furlappend%3D%253Bseq%3D97&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATitle+page" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cole, Garold L. 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