Goblin Market, published in 1865. The double-page spread was illustrated by her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti.]]> Christina Rossetti]]> Books]]> Book of Household Management: ‘The coloured plates are a novelty not without value.’ This colourful lithographic frontispiece depicting cherries, apricots and peaches, grapes, oranges, and other such delectables, conveys at least the food side of her 1861 classic. As seen from the sub-titles on the title-page opposite the frontispiece, the book also contains information ranging from the ‘cook’, ‘valet’, and ‘maid-of-all-work’, to ‘sanitary, medical and legal memoranda.’]]> Isabella Beeton]]> Books]]> Supplication of Saints, an extremely popular devotional aid containing a meditation on Christ’s life, death, and passion. Because the book contains prayers by Queen Elizabeth, a frontispiece image of her is attached. While many pictures of good Queen Bess aimed to reflect her agelessness, or contained associated symbols, like the rose, this particular woodcut is rather primitive. Its use in this late 17th century publication is at odds with some of the more sumptuous frontispiece illustrations extant from the Elizabethan times onwards.]]> Thomas Sorocold]]> Books]]> Opuscula Mythologica Physica et Ethica with the frontispiece placed on the left hand side and title page on the right.]]> Thomas Gale]]> Books]]> Opuscula Mythologica Physica et Ethica (1688) with the frontispiece sitting on the right hand side.]]> Thomas Gale]]> Books]]> Dodona’s Grove (1641). Its later use raises a question of plate ownership.]]> James Howell]]> Books]]> Ian Rogerson]]> Books]]> Sculptura (1662), which contained the first announcement of the art of mezzotint, and which was the first book on the history of engraving published in England. This work also contains an allegorical engraved frontispiece designed by Evelyn himself and engraved by Abraham Hertochs, the Dutch engraver. Evelyn’s seated girl represents the Graphic Arts; Geoffrey Keynes, his bibliographer, called the image ‘painfully banal’.]]> John Evelyn]]> Books]]> ___]]> Books]]> Poems on Several Occasions (1764), publisher Dodsley asked Wale to concoct the bacchanalian scene that forms this foldout frontispiece. The vignette was certainly typical of Wale’s work. Importantly, the frontispiece has been so termed on the foldout image, and is in the position with which most modern day readers are familiar: on the left.]]> [John Gilbert Cooper]]]> Books]]> Edited by C. F. Partington]]> Books]]> The Wonderful Adventures of Nils is one in a long tradition. It also carries a common feature in modern-day frontispieces: the printing of a small portion of text with a page number that references the image to where it (the action) occurs in the text.]]> Selma Lagerlöf]]> Books]]> Rufinus]]> Books]]> E. Mervyn Taylor]]> Books]]> Oscar & Lucinda, provides the stimulus for this frontispiece produced by the New York City-based artist, Katherine Street. Her love of collages is evident in this illustration, although it is hard to reconcile Lucinda’s image of Oscar’s face as ‘long and censorious’ versus the reality of ‘doe-like, almost pretty, with soft eyes…’. This novel by Australian Peter Carey won the 1988 Booker Prize, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award.]]> Peter Carey]]> Books]]> The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, a mix of Gothic-like stories centred round fairy and folk tales that first appeared in 1979. Igor Karash, who studied book design and illustration at Kharkov State Art & Design Academy in Ukraine, won the second House of Illustration/Folio Society Illustration Award. In the title’s story The Bloody Chamber, one finds a sinister Bluebeard luring his bride to his castle. The text that spurred Karash on to provide this frontispiece image reads: ‘He stripped me, gourmand that he was, as if he were stripping the leaves off an artichoke.’]]> Angela Carter]]> Books]]> Poems by Esenin, which was originally produced in 1970 by Wai-te-ata Press, Wellington. In repackaging this new edition, Hickin had the Canterbury-born artist Wayne Seyb embellish the text with images. In this instance, a simple but striking woodcut forms the frontispiece.]]> Sergeĭ Aleksandrovich Esenin]]> Books]]> Back + Forth is a visual narrative. There is no text in this 187 page novel, only linocuts, printed in black, grey, or sepia. It is a true wordless novel, where the reader gathers personal meaning from the images. This process in itself creates the words that encompass what is (and will be) a very personal tale. It seems that the artist has specifically drawn the image for the frontispiece. The inclusion of the letters ‘B + F’ reiterate in a very simple way the title, thereby connecting it back to the whole book.]]> Marta Chudolinska]]> Books]]> The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym has provided the British-born artist, David Lupton, an opportunity to indulge. He has admitted to a love for melancholy and the macabre, something that Poe’s tale certainly offers. Again the frontispiece stands alone, with an ‘Illustrations’ list in the preliminary pages that not only gives the page number of where the action takes place, but also gives a portion of the text that presumably the artist worked from to create the image.]]> Edgar Allan Poe]]> Books]]> ‘Goblin Market’ and Selected Poems, providing eleven images throughout the volume. This much lighter illustration was chosen for the frontispiece. Sisters Laura and Lizzie are present, but there is no sign of any evil goblins. This new Folio Society edition was donated to Special Collections by Emeritus Professor Colin Gibson.]]> Christina Rossetti]]> Books]]> Mickey Spillane]]> Books]]> H. G. Wells]]> Books]]> ___]]> Books]]> Britannia, is full of symbolism. At the top, Britain, personified, sits on a rock with spear and standard in hand. The map of Britain, imprinted with the names of pre-Roman tribes, is flanked by Neptune and Ceres, depicting fertility on both land and sea. At the bottom, a ship, Stonehenge, Roman baths, and a church symbolise Britain’s formidable navy, her history, and strong Christian faith, respectively. Despite its position, to the right, this engraving is essentially a frontispiece, not a title page.]]> [Willliam Camden]]]> Books]]> Giovanni Stringa]]> Books]]>