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Definition of Bastard title
1. Noun. A first page of some books displaying only the title of the book.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastard Title
Literary usage of Bastard title
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on Title-pages, with Numerous by Theodore Low De Vinne (1902)
"On the verso of the bastard title may be put the name of the printer, ...
This false title should be in types smaller than those of the bastard title. ..."
2. The Author's Desk Book: Being a Reference Volume Upon Questions of the by William Dana Orcutt, ( (1914)
"... the name of the author, the publisher's device, and the publisher's name and
address. At the present time the bastard-title is used more to add ..."
3. The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Henry Barton Dawson (1864)
"The second volume, Bastard-title ; verso to bastard-title, blank ; title- page,
as above ; verso to the title, blank,— all unpaged ..."
4. Transactions by Glasgow Archaeological Society, British Pomological Society (1899)
"Then comes the text, preceded by a bastard title. This, the first edition, which
is in the British Museum (1038, c. 19), is well printed in large type on an ..."
5. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1897)
"bastard title: Secret Journals | of the | Congress of the Confederation.
| Domestick Affairs. | History of the Confederation. 8vo. Authorization, pp. ..."
6. The Quinn & Boden Co., Book Manufacturers: Showing the Plant and Product by Quinn and Boden Company, Rahway, N.J., Quinn & Boden Company, The Quinn & Boden co., Rahway, N. J. (1922)
"The correct order for front matter is as follows: bastard title ... The Bastard
Title, often wrongly called the half- title, consists of the name of the ..."
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