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- noun Plural form of
frontispiece .
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If you can find the first editions, or some of the paperback editions, Edward Gorey did the frontispieces and they are FAB.
Possibly We Got A Little Carried Away With Our Holiday Gift Recommendations 2009
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Slightly less of you may know how crazy/awesome early modern woodcut illustrations and frontispieces can be.
LOL Manuscripts! The Nag 2009
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"With this and the amazing frontispieces by Lee Lorenz, we wanted to add some things that haven't been in the magazine."
'Riffs Best Books of 2010: THE NEW YORKER's Bob Mankoff offers a comic window into the year Michael Cavna 2010
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The best readers follow no maps; the best writers include them as frontispieces at the insistence of publishers who “know what the market wants.”
"Survival of the Fiction" -- the third-place winner from our "Pyr and Dragons Adventure" contest Jill Maxick 2010
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There are lush leather and gilt-edged collectibles with gorgeous frontispieces of men in tweeds casting bamboo rods on placid streams, and dog-eared paperbacks intended not for decoration, but to acquire hard-core fishing knowledge.
FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010
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But, as the visual evidence of his increasingly elaborate frontispieces suggests, this was also a logical next step in Soyer's ongoing, authorial masquerade: to appear in the most exalted of guises, as
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In his previous published works, Soyer's efforts at self-presentation were limited largely to the paratext, i.e. the prefaces, title pages, and especially frontispieces.
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Long before chefs could serve themselves up to a mass public on television, Soyer's books were both widely distributed, and offered ample opportunity for self-presentation, in prefaces and title pages, frontispieces and other illustrations, and even throughout the text, as we shall see in the case of his
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On the whole, gastronomic writers proved more daring and entrepreneurial vis-à-vis their public image, as evidenced for example by the provocative and self-promoting frontispieces to the eight volumes of
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Rather, the various portraits, frontispieces, and prefaces constructing their public image would invoke well-worn paradigms of literary distinction — for example, highlighting Carême's signature and pen, his accomplishments as a writer, and the monumentality of his creative aspirations (Ferguson 49-82).
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