Definition
Half-title
The half-title is the first printed page of a traditional book: a right-hand page carrying only the book's title — no author, no publisher. The full title page follows a leaf later.
A survivor from hand-press days, when the half-title protected the text block before binding. Modern books keep it because it stages the reader's entrance: a quiet page, then the full announcement. Self-published interiors often skip it to save two pages of print cost; keeping it is one of the cheap signals of a traditionally made book.
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