Half title

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General page layout and typography choices Front and back covers Endpapers Front matter Half title or Bastard title Frontispiece Title page Edition notice Dedication Table of contents List of figures List of tables Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue Body matter, which may include: Chapters Parts Back matter Epilogue Extro/Outro Afterword Conclusion Postscript Appendix/Addendum Glossary Bibliography Index Errata Colophon

The half title, or bastard title, is a page carrying nothing but the title of a book, as opposed to the title page, which also lists subtitle, author, publisher and similar data.

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• Chicago Manual of Style

15th ed.

(University of Chicago Press, 2003)