colophon

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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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  • The colophon (a term I had recently learned) consisted of hundred-year old engravings of our very first pump, the Mechanical Mule Bellows, flanking the title: The Hammock Industries Inspirer. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 02 - August 2003
  • Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental All rights reserved Copyright © 2008 by Lee Child 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 Nothing to lose / Lee Child p. cm eISBN: 978-0-440-33780-5 1. —  Lee Child - [Reacher 12] - Nothing to Lose
  • Some years ago the writer purchased an ancient folio without title-page and colophon, bound in tattered fragments of ancient calf covering stout oak boards. —  The Book-Hunter at Home
  • Sometimes a colophon or a decorated capital has to be imitated, and bold operators will reprint a page or two in facsimile; these operations, of course, involve the inlaying of paper, judiciously staining it, and other mysteries. —  The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
  • The colophon is: "Argentorati apvd Cratonem Mylivm an. —  The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics
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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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