An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . ht also have dwelt uponthe various sorrows and afflictions which copyists pre-pared for their employers, so graphically described byPetrarch. Petrarchs lamentation must have been a rareenjoyment to the first printer who published it, if he un-derstood it and had professional feeling. Much more might be said about the old printer as re-vealed by the colophon—his trade jealousies, his dispo-sition to monopolize, his deference to patrons, his joy athaving carried his work through the press, his convictionthat his labors have not been unatte
An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . ht also have dwelt uponthe various sorrows and afflictions which copyists pre-pared for their employers, so graphically described byPetrarch. Petrarchs lamentation must have been a rareenjoyment to the first printer who published it, if he un-derstood it and had professional feeling. Much more might be said about the old printer as re-vealed by the colophon—his trade jealousies, his dispo-sition to monopolize, his deference to patrons, his joy athaving carried his work through the press, his convictionthat his labors have not been unattended by the divineblessing. That inferior person, the author, too, occa-sionally gets a good word, especially when his authorshipassumes the form of translation or commentary. But ourbusiness is mainly with the colophon in its literary andbibliographical aspects, and it is time to make way forMr. Pollard, whose monograph upon it will, we believe,be found the fullest, the most entertaining, and the mostaccurate extant. R. Garnett. AN ESSAY ONCOLOPHONS. THE COLOPHONS REASON FOR EXISTENCE
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