Title-page of Blake’s “Songs of Innocence” 219 Examples of Colophons (Fig.
We may claim colophons as part of the subject of this book, because they early received decorative treatment.
In thecolophons of neither does the name of the printer transpire, but his Mark is given in both--in the former book in black, and in the latter in red.
Mainz, and from 1467 this claim was taken over by Peter Schoeffer, who in the colophons of his subsequent books again and again celebrated Mainz as the city singled out by divine favour to give the art to the world.
While printed colophons in his books are exceptionally rare, several copies have come down to us in which full colophons have been added by hand, e.
At least one printer, Johann Mentelin of Strassburg, seems to have considered the addition of colophons as the proper business of the rubricator.
Three different colophons to this book have been described, and examples of all of these are in the British Museum.
Stated in their colophons to have been "printed by Albrecht Durer, painter," neither edition bears the name of a professional printer.
But the Fust and Schoeffer colophons tell us more than this, for while they make no mention of Gutenberg they never claim the invention of printing as their own achievement.
It is thus that legends grow, and it is not difficult to imagine Haarlem bookmen picking up ideas out of colophons in old books and asking the "respectable bookbinder of great age" whether it was not thus and thus that things happened.
When the tablets were brought to England and were examined by Rawlinson, it was found from the information supplied by the colophons that they formed a part of the great Private Library of Ashur-bani-pal, which that king kept in his palace.
The longer colophons are of considerable interest and renderings of two typical examples are here appended:-- I.
Two colophons have already been quoted here, the first printed colophon (see p.
More often than not these colophons are irritatingly reticent, and withhold the very thing we want to know.
William Caxton had produced over sixty works, the colophons of many of them revealing much of the personal life and character of the first English printer.
At times, in the colophons of his books, he attempted Latin verse, the Sapphic verse of Horace, of a playful turn, to say that his work was perfected in 1494.
The Germans introduced into their colophons some vainglorious notices.
In these colophons are found philosophic aphorisms, satirical remarks, marvels of poetry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colophons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
