An Essay on Colophons, with Specimens and TranslationsPollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)
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An Essay on Colophons, with Specimens and Translations
Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)
Books -- History -- 1450-1600; Colophons; Incunabula -- Bibliography
Wenssler, Michael, colophon quoted, 82;
imitates Schoeffer’s use of armorial device, 22;
copies one of Schoeffer’s colophons, 168.
Westminster colophons. See Caxton.
Westphalia, John of. See John.
Winds, allusion to, in a colophon, 168.
Winters, Conrad, mentions his device in a colophon, 85.
Wirzburg, Heinrich, colophon quoted, 166.
Wolgemut, M., illustrator of the ‘Nuremberg Chronicle,’ 121.
X, examples of accidental omission of, from dates in colophons, 43,
46 sq.;
V printed in the place of, 61;
often mistaken for it, 183.
Year, date of beginning in various countries, 175 sqq.
Zainer, Günther, verse colophon with acrostic of his Christian name, 81.
Zainer, Johann, colophon quoted, 58.
Zaroto, Antonio, his claim to be the first printer at Milan disputed by
Lavagna, 60 sq.
Zell, Ulrich, colophon quoted, 156.
Zovenzonius, Raphael, his verse colophons, 31.
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[Illustration: THE DE VINNE PRESS IMPRIMATVR]
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