Front matter is the term used for the information and pages that proceed the body text of a book. This material begins as the first printed page and ends before chapter one. There is far more detailed information about front matter available and should be searched out when creating your book layout. Below are listed the more common elements that we see in the books that we produce. They are listed in the order in which they should appear in the layout and unless noted otherwise, all elements begin on a right side page.
Half Title Page - This is a page with the title of the book and nothing else.
Frontispiece - A left page illustration that precedes (faces) the title page. Not very common but is still used from time to time.
Title Page - Includes the full book title, subtitle and author and can include the editor, illustrator, publisher and so on.
Edition Notice - A left page, sometimes called the copyright page. This page contains technical and legal information about the book including; copyright notice, legal notices, publication info, printing history, catalog information and ISBN number.
Dedication Page
Table of Contents
Foreword - Written by someone besides the author of the book. Generally about a relationship between the author of the book and the author of the foreword.
Preface or Introduction - An introduction of the book written by the book’s author.
Acknowledgements - A list of those that helped the author in the creation of the book through editorial, financial, moral or technical support.
Prologue - Similar to a preface but written by the author in the voice of a character in the book.
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To the new print buyer there are certainly many confusing aspects to commercial printing. But there is one aspect that remains confusing even to the well seasoned print buyer. Paper weight.
In printing we are often confronted with the problem of expectation versus reality. The color that you see on your monitor, your laser printer, your color proof, your press proof and the final printed product can look surprisingly different from one another. This is the reality. Of course the expectation is that they are all the same.
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Most print buyers don’t know and don’t care about how their materials wind up on paper. That’s fine, we get paid to worry about that. But there is one thing that we get asked about often and that’s the difference between digital and offset printing.