An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . Sill VI COLOPHONS OF AUTHORS AND EDITORS. OOKSELLERS are a much morelearned body than they used to be,but few readers of second-handcatalogues can have failed to meetwith ascriptions of dates for theprinting of books long anterior tothe invention of the art, on theground of colophons which theyknow at once to have been written by the authors. Whereonly a few years separate the dates of composition andpublication the mistake is easily made and not alwayseasily detected. The retention of the authors originalcolophon is, however, common eno
An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . Sill VI COLOPHONS OF AUTHORS AND EDITORS. OOKSELLERS are a much morelearned body than they used to be,but few readers of second-handcatalogues can have failed to meetwith ascriptions of dates for theprinting of books long anterior tothe invention of the art, on theground of colophons which theyknow at once to have been written by the authors. Whereonly a few years separate the dates of composition andpublication the mistake is easily made and not alwayseasily detected. The retention of the authors originalcolophon is, however, common enough for cataloguersto be prepared for it; and there are plenty of cases inwhich a book possesses two quite distinct colophons, thefirst by the author, the second by the printer or , to take a simple example from a famous book, we 123 i24 AN ESSAY ON COLOPHONS find at the end of the text of the Hypnerotomachiathe authors colophon: Taruisii cum decorissimis Poliae amore lorulis distineretur mi-sellus Poliphilus. Kalendis Maii. At Treviso, while the wretched Polifilo w
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