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colophon|ˈkɒləfən|
[a. late L. colophōn, a. Gr. κολοϕών summit, ‘finishing touch’.]
†1. ‘Finishing stroke’, ‘crowning touch’. Obs.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. iv. ii. i. (1651) 693 His Colophon is how to resist and repress Atheism. 1635Swan Spec. M. ix. §1 (1643) 420 He [God] comes to the Creation of man, and makes him the Colophon, or conclusion of all things else.
2. spec.
a. The inscription or device, sometimes pictorial or emblematic, formerly placed at the end of a book or manuscript, and containing the title, the scribe's or printer's name, date and place of printing, etc. Hence, from title-page to colophon.
In early times the colophon gave the information now given on the title-page.
1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry iii. 140 The name and date of illuminator, in the following Colophon, written in letters of gold. 1824Ibid. (1840) I. 187 note, The volume has this colophon. ‘Here endeth the lyfe of the moost ferefullest and unmercyfullest and myschevous Robert the devill which was afterwards called the servaunt of our Lorde Jhesu Cryste. Emprinted in Fletestrete in [at] the sygne of the sonne by Wynkyn de Worde.’ 1816Scott Antiq. i, The volume was uninjured and entire from title-page to colophon. 18..De Morgan Difficulty of Descr. Bks. (L.), When the colophon, or final description, fell into disuse..since the titlepage had become the principal direct means of identifying the book. 1884Sala in Illust. Lond. News 31 May 519/2 A literary vampire—who collects nothing but title-pages and colophons.
b. = imprint n. 3. U.S.
1930Publishers' Weekly 19 Apr. 2113/1 The publishers must cut their lists and have their colophons stand for a particular quality which, in time, the bookseller will recognize and consider in his buying. 1948Chicago Tribune 27 June iv. 5/1 The Wilson company uses the lighthouse for its colophon.
Hence ˈcolophonize v., to provide with a colophon or tail-piece.
1837Sir F. Palgrave Merch. & Friar v. (1844) 186 The corrected slips of said speech, duly colophonized, ‘The honourable Member sat down amidst loud and repeated cheers’. |