| 单词 | from title page to colophon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfrom title page to colophon 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. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printers' symbols and directions > [noun] > inscription at end of book with printer's name colophon1774 society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > colophon or imprint epigraph1633 colophon1774 imprint1790 imprimatur1970 1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. iii. 140 The name and date of illuminator, in the following colophon, written in golden letters. 1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. Addit. sig. d2 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.’ 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. i. 16 The volume was uninjured and entire from title-page to colophon. 1852 A. De Morgan On Difficulty of Descr. Bks. (1902) 16 When the colophon, or final description, fell into disuse..since the title-page had become the principal direct means of identifying the book. 1884 G. A. Sala in Illustr. London News 31 May 519/2 A literary vampire—who collects nothing but title-pages and colophons. < as lemmas |
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