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Definition of Frontispieces
1. frontispiece [n] - See also: frontispiece
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frontispieces
Literary usage of Frontispieces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Life of Nicholas Poussin by Maria Callcott (1820)
"DESIGNS FOR frontispieces. frontispieces designed 'while Poussin was in Paris.
1. For the Bible of Sixtus V. — God the Father appears above ; Revelation ..."
2. The Chautauquan by Chautauqua Institution (1913)
"... 1913 Cover Design by James Hall frontispieces Henry IV, Louis XIII, Louis XIV;
The Samaritaine, Statue of Henry IV; Hugo's House, Gate of the Carrousel ..."
3. Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts: ... Preserved in by Virginia, William Pitt Palmer, Sherwin McRae, Raleigh Edward Colston, Henry W. Flournoy (1875)
"... has been reproduced in the frontispieces of the earlier editions of histories
of Virginia, and was for a long time used as a book-plate in the miscel- ..."
4. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1907)
"frontispieces— TABLE OF CONTENTS. NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1907. Buffalo and Steamboat
on the Missouri , 331 Buffalo and Indian Hunters 132 The Migration! of the ..."
5. A Dictionary of Artists of the English School: Painters, Sculptors by Samuel Redgrave (1878)
"He was chiefly employed upon portraits and ornamental frontispieces for books.
There is a portrait by him of Mary, Queen of William III. ..."
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