Title page
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The title page of a book, abbreviated t.p., is the page near the front which displays its title, and conventionally its author and publisher. It is the most important part of the front matter or preliminaries of a book, and may contain a fuller title than the cover. Further information about the publication of the book, including its copyright, is frequently printed on the verso of the title page.
The first printed books or incunabula did not have title pages. The text would begin on the first page and the book would have to be identified by the initial words or incipit.
Alternatively a title page is the first page of an essay which has the title of the essay, the author of the essay, and any additional class information such as student number, date, class, and professor information. Sometimes in an essay the title page is not required and instead the same information precedes the essay at the top of the first page.
A title page can also be the main Web page in a group of Web pages, for example the main page in a directory.
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