colophon

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Any student of colophons — or of those pull-down menus listing digital typefaces — will recognize the name Bodoni, the 18th-century printer and immensely influential type designer.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2015

Its name commemorates a great 16th-Century connoisseur of covers & colophons, Jean Grolier de Servier.

From Time Magazine Archive

At least one printer, Johann Mentelin of Strassburg, seems to have considered the addition of colophons as the proper business of the rubricator.

From Fine Books by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

The earliest of the colophons dates from a.d.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

The running title and colophons are in rustic capitals, not in uncials.

From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by Lowe, E. A. (Elias Avery)