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How to use colophons in a sentence

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Many books have colophons at the end giving the name of one or more scribes, and sometimes giving the names of patrons.
When they stood alone, they were distinguished from colophons and called explicits.
Caxton's prefaces, colophons, and epilogues in particular are self-conscious about authorship, purpose, genre, sources, patronage, medium, and technique.
I wallowed in bindings and leathers and fonts, in all the lovely jargon of the trade, half-titles, colophons, blind stamping, foxing, black letter, washed leaves and cancels.
Such colophons are important sources of information for the origin of early printed books.
The illustrated manuscripts of the seventeenth century yield a number of vital colophons and marginal notes.
The importance attached to patronage can be traced in the colophons of surviving books.
In Chinese eyes a picture may gain considerably in interest and value from the colophons added by later connoisseurs on the painting itself or, in the case of a hand scroll, mounted after it.
Printed colophons soon became more elaborate, however, evolving into a means whereby the printer might praise the book at length and even insert a short essay upon its merits.
The author explains each text, and includes both incipits and colophons of metrological and numerical tables.
Colophons are sometimes found in manuscripts and books made from the 6th century ce on.
Examples from Classical Literature
The Germans introduced into their colophons some vainglorious notices.
The running title and colophons are in rustic capitals, not in uncials.
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