单词 | bastard title |
释义 | > as lemmasbastard title bastard title n. now rare a page in a book which immediately precedes the full title page, and usually bears an abbreviated form of the title of the book; = half-title n. at half adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > title > short-title or half-title bastard title1756 short-title1869 text-title1881 subtitle1883 1756 ‘A Gentleman of Oxford’ Devil upon Crutches (ed. 2) ii. vi. 57 This Copy loosely printed..will, with the Assistance of a Bastard-Title, make five Sheets in Quarto. 1851 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 366/2 In the bastard-title the work is called ‘History of the Principal Republics of the World’. 1954 R. Stokes Esdaile's Student's Man. Bibliogr. (ed. 3) 95 The Half-title or bastard title.., which precedes the title page, carries on the recto the book's short title. < as lemmas |
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