An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . ers ofthose prudent citizens, Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kamer-maister, this book has been printed by Master Anton Kobergerat Nuremberg, with the assistance, nevertheless, of mathemati-cal men, well skilled in the art of painting, Michael Wolgemutand Wilhelm PleydenwurfF, by whose skilful and most accurateannotation the pictures both of cities and of illustrious men have 122 AN ESSAY ON COLOPHONS been inserted. It has been brought to an end on July 12th. Inthe year of our salvation 1493. Out of all the hundreds of fifteenth-century bo
An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . ers ofthose prudent citizens, Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kamer-maister, this book has been printed by Master Anton Kobergerat Nuremberg, with the assistance, nevertheless, of mathemati-cal men, well skilled in the art of painting, Michael Wolgemutand Wilhelm PleydenwurfF, by whose skilful and most accurateannotation the pictures both of cities and of illustrious men have 122 AN ESSAY ON COLOPHONS been inserted. It has been brought to an end on July 12th. Inthe year of our salvation 1493. Out of all the hundreds of fifteenth-century books withinteresting pictures, this is the only one I can call tomind which gives explicit information as to its illustra-tions. Perhaps the publishers thought that the woodcutswere themselves more conspicuous in the books than thecolophons. But it is certainly strange that when authors,editors, press-correctors, printers, patrons, and booksellersall get their due, the illustrators, save in this one instance,should have been kept in anonymous Sill VI COLOPHONS OF AUTHORS AND EDITORS
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