1. an illustration that faces or immediately precedes the title page of a book, book section, or magazine.
2. architecture A façade, especially an ornamental façade.
3. architecture A small ornamental pediment, as on top of a door or window.
4. archaic A title page.

1. an illustration that is on the page before the title page of a book, a section of one, or a magazine.
2. the title page of a book.
3. A façade, especially an ornamental one.
4. A small pediment of which is ornamental, especially on the top of a window or door.

1. the principal front of a building.
2. an ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself.

1. to furnish with a frontispiece.
2. to use as a frontispiece: as, to frontispiece a map.
3. that which is seen in front, or which directly presents itself to the eye.
4. A print or engraving placed in front of the title of a book.

1. front illustration facing the title page of a book
2. an ornamental facade