First section of a book

Introduction

Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components of a book into a coherent whole.

Front matter, or preliminaries, is the first section of a book, and is usually the smallest section in terms of the number of pages.

Chapter 1

Front matter, or preliminaries, is the first section of a book, and is usually the smallest section in terms of the number of pages. Each page is counted, but no folio or page number is expressed, or printed, on either display pages or blank pages. Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components of a book into a coherent whole.

To produce perfect books, these rules have to be brought back to life and applied.” Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components of a book into a coherent whole. In the words of Jan Tschichold, “methods and rules upon which it is impossible to improve, have been developed over centuries. To produce perfect books, these rules have to be brought back to life and applied.”

Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components of a book into a coherent whole.

Chapter 2

Front matter, or preliminaries, is the first section of a book, and is usually the smallest section in terms of the number of pages. Each page is counted, but no folio or page number is expressed, or printed, on either display pages or blank pages. Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components of a book into a coherent whole.

To produce perfect books, these rules have to be brought back to life and applied.” Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components of a book into a coherent whole. In the words of Jan Tschichold, “methods and rules upon which it is impossible to improve, have been developed over centuries. To produce perfect books, these rules have to be brought back to life and applied.”

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