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  1. noun An inscription placed usually at the end of a book, giving facts about its publication.
  2. noun A publisher's emblem or trademark placed usually on the title page of a book.

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  • All rights reserved Copyright " 2007 by Lee Child Delacorte Press is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc. —  Bad Luck and Trouble
  • x-xii, is that intended by the printer, is clear both from the position and from the language of the colophon--the position because the colophon is attached to the Codex, and the language because it describes the volume as consisting of "the ten Collations and the three books of the Codes." —  Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University
  • Codex lib. x-xii, is that intended by the printer, is clear both from the position and from the language of the colophon -- the position because the colophon is attached to the Codex, and the language because it describes the volume as consisting of "the ten Collations and the three books of the Codes." —  Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University
  • All rights reserved Copyright " 2006 by Lee Child Book design by Glen Edelstein Delacorte Press is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Child, Lee. —  The Hard War
  • Delacorte Press is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc. "and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Coben, Harlan, —  Tell No One
 

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  1. Late Latin colophōn, from Greek kolophōn, summit, finishing touch; see kel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Late Latin colophon, from Greek κολοφών, the summit, top, especially in phrases like κολοφῶνα ἐπιτιθέναι, give the finishing stroke, κολοφω̄να ἐπάγειν τῷ λόγῳ, put an end to a speech, etc. (imaginatively explained by Strabo with reference to the city κολοφών in Ionia, because the cavalry from that city was “so excellent that it always decided the contest”; but see colophony); prob. akin to L. columen, top, summit: see column. Cf. Greek κορυφή, the head, top, highest point, from κόρυς, head, helmet: see corypha, corypheus.
 

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