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  • noun Plural form of colophon.

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Examples

  • They added calligraphic comments ( "colophons") on the margins for posterity.

    An Encounter With the Sublime 2008

  • It is full of information on fonts and printing processes, on philologists and collectors, on colophons and entrepreneurs.

    The Bible of Bibliomania 2010

  • It is full of information on fonts and printing processes, on philologists and collectors, on colophons and entrepreneurs.

    The Bible of Bibliomania 2010

  • It is full of information on fonts and printing processes, on philologists and collectors, on colophons and entrepreneurs.

    The Bible of Bibliomania 2010

  • HOWARD, TOUCHSTONE, and their colophons are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

    The Black Madonna Davis Bunn 2010

  • It is full of information on fonts and printing processes, on philologists and collectors, on colophons and entrepreneurs.

    The Bible of Bibliomania 2010

  • After Estellina Conat, there were at least fifty-four other Jewish women printers whose names were on colophons or title-pages up to the 1920s and there have been many since.

    Printers. 2009

  • HOWARD, TOUCHSTONE, and colophons are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

    Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009

  • In particular as a result of Jorunn Buckley's work on the colophons (lists of copyists) on Mandaean scrolls, many would regard the 3rd century as a relatively firm date by which a number of the Mandaean sources in their original (rather than present) form were composed.

    Studying the Mandaeans: Sources and Questions James F. McGrath 2009

  • Some of the women are mentioned specifically by name: in other cases lines in the colophons and title pages state, as in the case of the famous Proops family of Amsterdam, “Printed by the Widow and Orphans of Jacob (or Joseph) Proops” or “Printed by the Widow and Brothers Romm” in late nineteenth-century Vilna.

    Printers. 2009

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