Further research revealed that the copy in Vienna is one of at least seventeen copies with the alternative
title page, out of the fifty total copies of Frosch's Opusculum (23).
The
title page of the first of these works has an architectural frame with straight pillars and an eagle at the apex of the frame.
In one stroke of luck, however, on the first leaf of the missigned gathering, both the Johns Hopkins University copy with the 1687
title page and my copy with the 1689
title page reveal a distinctive portion of what appears to be the same watermark, three touching circles below a shieldlike shape.
Surveying the use of names on
title pages reveals that approximately 50 percent of the fiction in the period 1660-1750 lists no author on the
title page, and a further 20 percent has another tagline or pseudonym (and so is functionally anonymous).
Its
title page uses Jones's Ojibwe name in similar ways to the 1831 pamphlets.
Its
title page (Plate 4) depicts a visual interpretation of the argomento, which precedes the scenario.
The British Library finally confirmed my suspicions that, indeed, this was another copy, and sent me reproductions of the general
title page and also the
title page to the European book and its frontispiece along with a copy of the manuscript index to all the maps.
Conveniently, another characteristic of the undated Isolario edition--a small, intricate pattern on its
title page, called the printer's mark--gave Hedges an independent way to estimate that date.
However, it is missing its frontispiece--the illustration on the page that faces or immediately precedes the
title page of a book.
Described as a translation from French on its
title page, the hand-book occupies an important place in the history of rhetoric as "a bridging or linking text between men's and women's rhetoric, Classical and belletristic rhetoric, [and] French and English rhetoric." It portrays rhetoric as a useful art for "both women's and men's discursive participation in public and private life."
Most are "prepared" or assembled in development houses by teams of anonymous writers and editors; the ultimate product has only a tenuous connection to the authors whose names are on the
title page.
The
title page should include the running head and page number in the upper right-hand corner, a title that is centered in the upper haft of the page (double-space the title if it is two or more lines), and the names of authors, in the order of their contributions, starting one double-spaced line below the title with the institutional affiliation centered under the author's name.
