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1 Peter WilsonSome Examples ofTitle PagesThe Herries Press2010c 2007, 2009, 2010 Peter R. WilsonAll rights work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX ProjectPublic License, either version of this license or (at your option) any later version. Thelatest version is version or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2005/12/01 or work has the LPPL maintenance status maintained .The Current Maintainer of this work is Peter work consists of the the derived paper used in this publication may meet the minimum requirements of the AmericanNational Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed LibraryMaterials, ANSI 11 10 09 08 07 8 7 6 5 4 3 First edition:January 2007 Second impression, with minor extensions January 2009 Third impression, with minor extensions July 2010 Wilson, Examples of Title Pages / Peter Wilson.

2 1st Herries Press illustrations, bibliographical references and Book designI. TitlePrinted in the WorldThe Herries Press,Normandy Park, WAherries dot press (at) earthlink dot netContentsContentsiii1 Introduction12 Example Title pages3A The titleJT (graphic on page 4) .. titleTH (graphic on page 5) .. titleM (graphic on page 6) .. titleS (graphic on page 7) .. titleHGP (graphic on page 8) .. titleRF (graphic on page 9) .. titleAT (graphic on page 10) .. titleDB (graphic on page 11) .. titleAM (graphic on page 12) .. titleP (graphic on page 13) .. titleLL (graphic on page 14) .. titleGM (graphic on page 15) .. titlePM (graphic on page 16) .. titleCC (graphic on page 17) .. titleDS (graphic on page 18) .. titleMS (graphic on page 19) .. titlePW (graphic on page 20) .. titleUL (graphic on page 21).

3 TitleASU (graphic on page 22) .. titleBC (graphic on page 23) .. titleSW (graphic on page 24) .. titleTMB (graphic on page 25) .. titleFT (graphic on page 26) .. titleJE (graphic on page 27) .. titleZD (graphic on page 28) .. titleWM (graphic on page 29) .. titleWH (graphic on page 30) .. titleBWF (graphic on page 31) .. titleSI (graphic on page 32) .. titleJA (graphic on page 33) .. titleGP (graphic on page 34) .. titleHC (graphic on page 35) .. titlePP (graphic on page 36) .. titleRMMH (graphic on page 37) .. titleEI (graphic on page 38) .. titleGWP (graphic on page 39) .. titleIP (graphic on page 40) .. titleAAT (graphic on page 41) .. titleCM (graphic on page 42) .. titleRB (graphic on page 43) .. 72 Bibliography75 Index of Designers79iv1 IntroductionThis document presents various styles of designs for Title Pages .

4 If you have astyle you would like to contribute, please send it to me1, with code, and I willinclude it in the next version with due provides the\author,\titleand\datecommands for specifyingthe author, Title , and date of a work. The\maketitlecommand is then usedto print these. If the document is more like a book or a report than an articlethere is a temptation to use atitlepageenvironment and\maketitletoprint the Title page. However, there are many designs for Title Pages other thanthat provided by\maketitle, and it may be advantageous to define your ownrather than relying on the default which, I think, is more suited for an articlethan any substantive from Ruari McLean [McL80] in reference to the Title page, he says:From the designer s point of view, it is the most important page inthe book: it sets the style. It is the page which opens communi-cation with the reader.

5 If illustrations play a large part in thebook, the Title page opening should, or may, express this any form of decoration is used inside the book, , for chapteropenings, one would expect this to be repeated or echoed on thetitle page. Whatever the style of the book, the Title page shouldgive a foretaste of it. If the book consists of plain text, the titlepage should at least be in harmony with short document provides some forty or so Examples of Title page de-signs. I claim no credit for any of these as I found them in books in my libraryand all I did was create LATEX code to demonstrate their general appearance. Alist of the sources is given in the Bibliography. In the real world many differentfonts were used and I have used some here, although I have set most pageswith Knuth s Computer Modern Roman Title page for this document is based on one of the designs are shown following this introduction and the code for each isgiven at the end.

6 There is no particular ordering to the Examples , not eventhe order in which I found them. The designs are meant as possible startingpoints for exercising your on the subject of introductory Pages , the copyright page of a booklike the Title page, is an individual design and I cannot think that a generic1I am currently atherries dot press (at) earthlink dot net1 LATEX command or environment for the contents of a copyright page would beof any use. The example copyright page of this work was laid out by hand;fortunately there is no requirement for typographical perfection it is morea question of printing the required information than anything Title pagesEach example is shown in a frame which represents the textblock, although itis shrunk slightly here in order to get the illustrations on to the Pages withoutLATEX complaining about overfullthis or that . The frame is designed to fitthis document the Title Pages used as exemplars had textblocks that werewider or narrower and/or longer or shorter than here.

7 At the bottom of eachframe is the name of the command used to generate the Title page material(the code for these is given later).The same general Title , not, I hope, a real one, has been used throughoutbut the surrounding details may differ from one example to fonts used in the originals were many and varied. Most used blackbut in some cases the main Title was set in color typically red. Printers ornaments were used in some of the originals and I have included some here toindicate the flavour of the originals. In some cases the publisher s logo was puton the Title page. Here I have usedPLto represent the logos. In some casesthe year of publication was included on the Title page and I have indicatedwhere this was placed brief, the Examples given here are merely sketches of the real Title pagesbut hopefully convey the spirit, if not the elegance, of the exception to all the above is the last example, which is a real Title pageshown in all its glory and at its true typeblock size the (double) frame inthis case being an integral part of the design.

8 It is from an old book, probablydating to the late 18th or early 19th century, that I reset using AuthorThe Big Book ofConundrumsPLThe Publisher\titleJT4 The AuthorThe Big Book ofCONUNDRUMSWith 123 illustrationsThe PublisherPL\titleTH5 Conundrumspuzzles for the mindbythe authorPLthe publisher\titleM6 Conundrumsby The AuthorThe Publisher\titleS7 THE AUTHORCONUNDRUMSA Handy Guide to Puzzles andEnigmasafter the foreign edition ofyeartranslated byTHE TRANSLATORTHE PUBLISHERHGPEYEAR\titleHGP8 The Big Book ofCONUNDRUMSE dited by The EditorPLThe Publisheryear\titleRF9 THE BOOKOFCONUNDRUMSThe AuthorPLthe publisher\titleAT10 THEBIG BOOKOFCONUNDRUMSBYTHE AUTHORFOREWORD BY AN OTHERTHE PUBLISHER\titleDB11 The AuthorTHE BIG BOOKOFCONUNDRUMS with ten engravingsand with a foreword byan otherPLthe publisheryear\titleAM12 SOMECONUNDRUMSBy THE AUTHORthe publisher\titleP13 CONUNDRUMSP uzzles for the MindThe AuthorTHE PUBLISHER\titleLL14

9 SomeConundrumsPuzzles for the MindTHE AUTHORThe Publisher\titleGM15 QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQSomeConundrumsPuzz les for the MindTHE AUTHORThe Publisher\titlePM16 THE BIG BOOK OFCONUNDRUMSVOLUME 1: SOCIAL AND MORALTHE AUTHORPLTHE PUBLISHER year\titleCC17 CONUNDRUMS CONSIDERED ASPUZZLES FOR THE MINDByThe CandidateA Thesis Submitted to the GraduateFaculty of The Universityin Partial Fulfillment of theRequirements for the Degree ofDEGREEM ajor Subject: LogicApproved by theExamining Committee:A Professor, Thesis AdvisorAnother Professor, Thesis AdvisorA Faculty, MemberAnother Faculty, MemberA Third Faculty, MemberThe UniversityThe AddressThe Date\titleDS18 THE UNIVERSITYC onundrums:puzzles for the mindTHESIS some remarks concerning the supervisorand the time and place of the examinationand other administrative detailsThe Candidate\titleMS19 SOME REMARKSON CONUNDRUMSAS PUZZLES FOR THE MINDbyTHE CANDIDATET hesis submitted to The University for thedegree of DEGREE, Month year.

10 \titlePW20 THE UNIVERSITYPLC onundrums: An Investigationof Mind Puzzles in N Pages , with T tables The1 CandidateCity, CountryThe \titleUL21 CONTINUING CONONDRUMS IN THE TYPOGRAPHICREQUIREMENTS FOR THESISbyIm A. StudentA Polemic Presented in Partial Fulfillmentof the Requirements for the DegreeName of DegreeTHE UNIVERSITYThe Date\titleASU22}Conundrums & PuzzlesA SIXTY-YEAR STUDY}The AuthorPLYEAR\titleBC23 The Bookof ConundrumsWith over 120 illustrations, 50 in colorThe AuthorPLThe Publisher\titleSW24the authorTHE BOOK OF CONUNDRUMS puzzles for the minddrawings by the artistthe publisheryear\titleTMB25 THE DONORTHE UNIVERSITY AND THE DONOR CONUNDRUMSTHE PUZZLES & ENIGMASPRESENTED IN>DCETOTHE UNIVERSITY OF CITYBY THE DONORWHO HAS ACHIEVED A VARIETY OF ACADEMICAND OTHER DISTINCTIONSBYTHE AUTHORWITH THE ASSISTANCE OFTHE ASSISTANTPLTHE PUBLISHERYEAR\titleFT26 The AuthorCONUNDRUMSI llustrations by The ArtistThe Publisher year\titleJE2744444444444444444444444444 444444444444444444444444 Selected Conundrums puzzles for the mind WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BYTHE AUTHORT.