[AlexBell]

One of the reasons I still do a title page is that it's a convenient place for the copyright notice, and for a mention of the edition I've used - if that's relevant. And some of the look so good that I think they're worth keeping.

But I really don't think a frontispiece image makes sense just after the title page and before the text. It might have in the days of dead tree books when a prospective buyer could pick the book up and look at the picture, but not (in my opinion) now.