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Definition of Colophons
1. colophon [n] - See also: colophon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colophons
Literary usage of Colophons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography by Richard Garnett (1899)
"The little enterprise I have to recommend is the publishing, in a small volume,
of such colophons, or attestations of the completion of a book by a printer, ..."
2. A Typographical Gazetteer by Henry Cotton (1831)
"distinguishing these towns, from the circumstance of the colophons of many books
presenting only the words ..."
3. Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the by Carl Bezold, Leonard William King, Wilfred G. Lambert, Alan Ralph Millard (1896)
"The following 277 numbers refer to fragments of tablets, the inscriptions of
which only contain colophons:— KK. 3075. 3088. 3441. 3513. 3606. 5667. 5698. ..."
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