[f. FLY sb.2 + LEAF.] A blank leaf at the beginning or end, but esp. at the beginning, of a book; the blank leaf of a circular, etc.
1848. Clough, Bothie, ix. 159.
| Yea, to the full golden fifty renewed be! and fair memoranda | |
| Happily fill the fly-leaves duly left in the Family Bible. |
1869. J. E. T. Rogers, in Adam Smith’s W. N., I. Preface, p. xix. I have seen the copy of the first edition, now in the possession of a distinguished economist (Mr. Babbage), which Smith sent to Hume, and which contains a characteristic note by the author on the fly-leaf.
1888. Burgon, Lives of Twelve Good Men, I. I. 26. On the fly-leaf of the first volume of this book (for it had been found necessary to bind the volume into two) is found the following memorandum.
