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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: "Lexicon" [E]

> From: Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc. <roger.thijs at euro-support.be>
> Subject: Help needed
>
> I'm looking for the correct English words for refering to quoted texts or
> pictures at the beginning or the end of books.

I'll mention the terms I've picked up in working with older books for the
Scotstext site, but it'll only cover a fraction of what you're asking!

> 1. The "front cover" (?) (may contain e.g. a reproduction of an old map).
> 2. Similarely for the "back cover" (?).

I think "front cover" and "back cover" are the usual terms. For hardback
books, these might be referred to collectively as "boards", but I haven't
heard the terms *"front board" or *"back board".

> 3. For clothbound books, the hard cover often only has some characters
> printed on the cloth or leather, but these books are often sold with a
> "jacket"; or "wrapper"(??)

This is called the "dust jacket".

> 6. The "title" page, next page on the right, often illustrated in old
books
> (often also with part of the text in red in old books)

This is the "title page".

> 7. The page at the left of the title page, in modern books often with
> edition date, ISBN number, Library of Congess number etc.

This is the "book page", except that I would expect it to be on the back of
the title page, with the frontispiece on the left of the title page. Of
course I'm talking about British books, where the arrangement might be
different.

> 8. Eventually a picture page between 6 and 7, with the illustration facing
> at the left the titelpage at the right. I would call it the "frontispiece
> page"(?);

This is just called the "frontispiece".

> 10. Expensive books often have a "colofon"(?) page with credentials. This
> page is often at the end.

Spelled "colophon".

> 14. Inlays (e.g. with some key terms explained)

Not sure what you mean by this - do you you mean "foldouts"?

> 14. Some books have only their text pages numbered, but include
> illustrations on unnumbered pages, bound in the book. How does one refere
to
> these?
> Something like:
> "the fift of the eight illustration pages, which are bound between page 32
> and 33"?

It's the "illustration facing page 33".

Sandy
http://scotstext.org/

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