An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . IV PRINTERS* COLOPHONS IN OTHER TOWNS. HE examples already quoted frombooks printed at Mainz and Ven-ice will have sufficiently illus-trated some of the general featureswhich run through early colo-phons— the professions of reli-gious thankfulness and devotion,and the desire of the printer toglorify not only the new art but himself as its most ex-pert practitioner. These features will recur in othercolophons we shall have occasion to quote, but there isno need to pick out many examples from books printedin other towns specially to illust
An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . IV PRINTERS* COLOPHONS IN OTHER TOWNS. HE examples already quoted frombooks printed at Mainz and Ven-ice will have sufficiently illus-trated some of the general featureswhich run through early colo-phons— the professions of reli-gious thankfulness and devotion,and the desire of the printer toglorify not only the new art but himself as its most ex-pert practitioner. These features will recur in othercolophons we shall have occasion to quote, but there isno need to pick out many examples from books printedin other towns specially to illustrate them. The piety ofGerman printers frequently prompted such devout colo-phons as this which Johann Zainer at Ulm added to hisedition of the Quodlibet of S. Thomas Aquinas, andthe one example may serve for all: 58 AN ESSAY ON COLOPHONS Immensa dei dementia finitur Quodlibet liber sancti Thome deAquino ordinis fratrum predicatorum in eiusdem gloriam com-positus. Impressus Ulm per Iohannem czainer de domini Millesimo quadringentesimo septuagesimoquinto. Pro cuius consummat
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