flyleaf

[ flahy-leef ]

/ ˈflaɪˌlif /

a blank leaf in the front or the back of a book.

Origin of flyleaf

1825–35; fly¹ (noun, in combination: something fastened by the edge) + leaf

Would it tire you very much to write it for me in the flyleaf of this Prayer-Book that Mr. Charnock has given me?

The Three Brides |Charlotte M. Yonge
On the flyleaf was written, in bold characters, “Hugo Ennis.”

The Peace of Roaring River |George van Schaick
The poem was written in pencil on the flyleaf of Bartoli's Simboli, a favorite book of his.

Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning |Robert Browning
Heber has inscribed a MS. note on the flyleaf to this effect.

The Confessions of a Collector |William Carew Hazlitt

I combine here the data of the two lists, calling the list on the flyleaf A and that on the lower margin B.

Henry the Sixth |John Blacman

flyleaf

/ (ˈflaɪˌliːf) /

the inner leaf of the endpaper of a book, pasted to the first leaf