Barlow's crime may cause short-lived shame, but it could guarantee the Take That frontispiece an eternal place in the rock'n'roll annals that his music (a regular presence on David Cameron's Spotify account) might not.
Each book had as frontispiece an original painting, carefully gummed onto the paper, produced by anonymous painters at the Jagannatha Temple in Puri, to which he returned every year.
The first account of the Royal Society's scheme of work, published in 1667, was accompanied by a frontispiece (see picture) showing Charles II, who granted the society its royal charter, with Sir Francis on his left and the society's first president on the king's right.Sir Isaac Newton, who defined the laws of gravity, became president of the Royal Society in 1703.
The report has as its frontispiece a poem posted last year by a Tibetan blogger.
Its frontispiece claimed that it was a translation of a lost medieval manuscript.
The frontispiece shows a pencil sketch by James of his brother, Wilky, recovering from wounds that almost killed him which he received while helping lead black troops in a heroic but costly northern assault on Fort Wagner in South Carolina.
For the frontispiece to the first edition, Whitman used a picture of himself in work clothes, posed nonchalantly with cocked hat and hand in trouser pocket, as if illustrating a line in his leading poem, "Song of Myself": "I cock my hat as I please indoors and out".
A favoured frontispiece is a large cross standing within an arch, incorporating or surrounded by animals and birds of all kinds (e.g., the Gelasian Sacramentary; St. Augustine, Quaestiones in Heptateuchon, Laon, c. 750).
The name derives from a custom initiated by Gerardus Mercator in the 16th century—of using the figure of the Titan Atlas, holding the globe on his shoulders, as a frontispiece for books of maps.
After Joséphin Péladan: The Supreme Vice served as the frontispiece to French writer and Symbolist Joséphin Péladan's popular erotic novel Le Vice suprême (1884).
The central building is a free-standing block with a prominent rectangular frontispiece that projects from the main wall in a series of shallow steps.
