An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . II COLOPHONS AT MAINZ. T was said at the end of our firstchapter that the presence of a colo-phon in an old book is to be takenas a sign of its printers pride in hiswork. This being so, it would seemonly reasonable to expect that thevery earliest books of all, the booksin which the new art made its firstappearance before the book-buying world, should befound equipped with the most communicative of colo-phons, telling us the story of the struggles of the inven-tor, and expatiating on the greatness of his every one knows, the ex
An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . II COLOPHONS AT MAINZ. T was said at the end of our firstchapter that the presence of a colo-phon in an old book is to be takenas a sign of its printers pride in hiswork. This being so, it would seemonly reasonable to expect that thevery earliest books of all, the booksin which the new art made its firstappearance before the book-buying world, should befound equipped with the most communicative of colo-phons, telling us the story of the struggles of the inven-tor, and expatiating on the greatness of his every one knows, the exact reverse of this is thecase, and a whole library of monographs and of oftenbitterly controversial pamphlets has been written for thelack of the information which a short paragraph apiecein three of the newly printed books could easily havegiven. What was the reason of this strange silence we 9 io AN ESSAY ON COLOPHONS are left to guess. It will be thought noteworthy, perhaps,that all three of these too reticent books are Latin Bibles—the 42-line Bible variously assigned
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