Frontispiece in a sentence

As soon as Frontispiece opened at Canary Wharf, business boomed: “We just put things in the window and they would go.

A frontispiece illustrates an old, bearded Christmas in a brimmed hat, a long open robe and undersleeves.

A watercolour copy by Jean-Baptiste Isabey was placed as frontispiece to Napoleon's copy of the poems.

Clippers typically carried extra sails such as skysails and moonrakers on the masts, and studdingsails on booms extending out from the hull or yards, Villiers (1962), frontispiece and p.220 which required extra hands to handle them.

Darwin's bulldog The frontispiece to Huxley's Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863): the image compares the skeletons of apes to humans.

Editions "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", frontispiece to a 1913 edition by Paul Bransom The book was originally published as plain text, but many illustrated, comic and annotated versions have been published over the years.

Frontispiece and title page from volume II of a 1716 edition of the Works of Virgil translated by John Dryden.

Frontispiece of Crofutt's Great Trans-Continental Tourist's Guide, 1870 The Union Pacific would not connect Omaha to Council Bluffs until completing the Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge in 1873.

Frontispiece of DPA book about Commons and Commoners' Rights, published 1890 Commoners’ rights The first publication of the DPA, in 1890, was a short history of commoners’ rights on Dartmoor and the commons of Devon.

Frontispiece of Father and Son Meanwhile, the ever active Gosse had taken up the study of orchids and exchanged a number of letters on the subject with Darwin, though he never published on it himself.

Frontispiece of Il teatro alla moda Accompanied by his father, Vivaldi traveled to Vienna and Prague in 1730, where his opera Farnace (RV 711) was presented.

Frontispiece to 1831 edition shown.

Here he produced a woodcut of St Jerome as a frontispiece for Nicholaus Kessler's 'Epistolare beati Hieronymi'.

History Frontispiece to Fireside Education, Samuel Griswold (Goodrich) For much of history and in many cultures, enlisting professional teachers (whether as tutors or in a formal academic setting) was an option available only to the elite social classes.

Hudibras Frontispiece and titlepage of a 1744 illustrated and annotated edition of Butler's Hudibras Hudibras is directed against religious sectarianism.

In most cases, more active scenes are used for the frontispiece, or in books after 1954, illustrations throughout the text drawn by uncredited illustrators.

J. H. G. Grattan and Charles Singer, Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine Illustrated Specially from the Semi-Pagan Text ‘Lacnunga’, Publications of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, New Series, 3 (London: Oxford University Press, 1952), frontispiece.

Leviathan main Frontispiece of Leviathan In Leviathan, Hobbes set out his doctrine of the foundation of states and legitimate governments and creating an objective science of morality.

Life Frontispiece of Zurara 's Crónicas dos Feitos de Guiné (Paris codex), with the phrase talent de bien faire ("the talent of doing well" or "Hunger for good deeds") and the pyramids, of Prince Henry's motto.

Pietschmann Sherr, frontispiece Josquin's mature style evolved during this period; as in Milan he had absorbed the influence of light Italian secular music, in Rome he refined his techniques of sacred music.