| 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. |
| When they stood alone, they were distinguished from colophons and called explicits. |
| 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. |
| Caxton's prefaces, colophons, and epilogues in particular are self-conscious about authorship, purpose, genre, sources, patronage, medium, and technique. |
| Many books have colophons at the end giving the name of one or more scribes, and sometimes giving the names of patrons. |
| Such colophons are important sources of information for the origin of early printed books. |
