An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . orite tag of Jensonand John of Cologne: Qui non tantum summam curam adhibuere ut sint hec et suaqueque sine uicio et menda, uerum etiam ut bene sint elaborataatque iucundissimo litterarum caractere confecta: ut unicuiqueet prodesse et oblectare possint. Who not only have taken the greatest pains that these and alltheir works may be free from fault and blot, but also that theymay be well finished off and composed with the most pleasingtype, so that they may at once profit and delight every one. Not to be able to boast with originality is
An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . orite tag of Jensonand John of Cologne: Qui non tantum summam curam adhibuere ut sint hec et suaqueque sine uicio et menda, uerum etiam ut bene sint elaborataatque iucundissimo litterarum caractere confecta: ut unicuiqueet prodesse et oblectare possint. Who not only have taken the greatest pains that these and alltheir works may be free from fault and blot, but also that theymay be well finished off and composed with the most pleasingtype, so that they may at once profit and delight every one. Not to be able to boast with originality is sad indeed, butto the students of early types and of the manners of themen who used them these traces of borrowing may atany point of an investigation prove useful. A printerwho borrowed the wording of a colophon probably bor-rowed something else as well. In most cases this was thetext, with which students of early printing seldom con-cern themselves as much as they should, but sometimesalso typographical peculiarities which may be worth
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