An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . PUBLISHERS* COLOPHONS. HE heading adopted for this chap-ter is not intended to imply thatthe colophons here grouped to-gether are separated by any hardline from those already considered,only that they deal with the pub-lishers side of book-making, thepraises by which the printers andpublishers recommended their wares, the financial helpby which the issue of expensive and slow-selling bookswas made possible, the growth of competition, and theendeavors to secure artificially protected markets. If colophons could be implicitly believed, the
An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . PUBLISHERS* COLOPHONS. HE heading adopted for this chap-ter is not intended to imply thatthe colophons here grouped to-gether are separated by any hardline from those already considered,only that they deal with the pub-lishers side of book-making, thepraises by which the printers andpublishers recommended their wares, the financial helpby which the issue of expensive and slow-selling bookswas made possible, the growth of competition, and theendeavors to secure artificially protected markets. If colophons could be implicitly believed, the earlyprinters would have to be reckoned as the most devoutand altruistic of men. As a matter of fact, books of de-votion and popular theology were probably the safest andmost profitable which they could take up. Yet we neednot doubt that the thought that they were engaged on a 91 92 AN ESSAY ON COLOPHONS pious work, and so accumulating merit/ gave themgenuine satisfaction, and that colophons like this ofArnold therhoernens were prompted by real religiousfeeling: Ad laudem e
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