colophon
noun
a publisher's or printer's distinctive emblem, used as an identifying device on its books and other works.
colophonic
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a word derived from
colophon.
Example Sentences
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At the end--just before the date, and the four colophonic verses of the printer--we read: "Finis primi ptis lecture dni Bartoli super ffto nouo."
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
