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Also known as bastard title

page=5|thumb|Half-title page of Picturesque New Guinea (1887), with ornamentation above and below the title The half-title or bastard title is a page carrying nothing but the title of a book—as opposed to the title page, which also lists subtitle, author, publisher and edition. The half-title is usually counted as the first page (p. i) in a printed book. The half-title can have some ornamentation of the book's title, or it can be plain text.