titlepages

The books given to the present biographer by “his affectionate friend, Clive Newcome,” still bear on the titlepages the marks of that boyish hand and youthful fervour.

The Newcomes 2006

He was clean looking and clean made; pleasant and courteous in all his habits; attached to books in a moderate, easy way, but no bookworm; he had a gentle affection for bindings and titlepages; was fond of pictures, of which it might be probable that he would some day know more than he did at present; addicted to Gothic architecture, and already proprietor of the germ of what was to be

Castle Richmond 2004

Could I have been two separate persons at one and the same time, of whom one might have been devoted to Cornhill and the other to the interests of the firm in Piccadilly, it might have been very well; — but as I preserved my identity in both places, I myself became aware that my name was too frequent on titlepages.

An Autobiography 2004

There are several real or pretended translations of the _astrological_ work -- some certainly pretended -- and Ptolemy's name is on many astrological titlepages which do not even pretend to translate.

Notes and Queries, Number 11, January 12, 1850 Various

Avenue, she sat up in quick attention, for she was passing window after window full of books spread out in enticing array, and above the doorways she read on the gilded signs the names which she had learned to know were on the titlepages of the books within.

Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen Anna Chapin Ray 1905

As for the book-binder's whale winding like a vine-stalk round the stock of a descending anchor -- as stamped and gilded on the backs and titlepages of many books both old and new -- that is a very picturesque but purely fabulous creature, imitated, I take it, from the like figures on antique vases.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

I preserved my identity in both places, I myself became aware that my name was too frequent on titlepages.

Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope 1848

Note: Images of the covers, spines, book plates and titlepages have beenincluded in the electronic text.

The Last Man 1826

As for the book-binder’s whale winding like a vine-stalk round the stock of a descending anchor — as stamped and gilded on the backs and titlepages of many books both old and new — that is a very picturesque but purely fabulous creature, imitated, I take it, from the like figures on antique vases.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Could I have been two separate persons at one and the same time, of whom one might have been devoted to Cornhill and the other to the interests of the firm in Piccadilly, it might have been very well; ” but as I preserved my identity in both places, I myself became aware that my name was too frequent on titlepages.

Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1883