Title: An essay on colophons :
Authors: Pollard, Alfred W.; Garnett, Richard,; Caxton Club.; De Vinne Press.
Date: 1905
Publisher: The Caxton Club,
Physical description: 4 p. ℓ., vii-xx p., 1 ℓ., 3-198 p., 2 ℓ. illus. 28 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Z
Contents: I. The colophon's reason for existence.--II. Colophons at Mainz.--III. Colophons at Venice.--IV. Printers' colophons in other towns.--V. Publishers' colophons.--VI. Colophons of authors and editors.--VII. Repetitions, thefts, and adaptations.--VIII. Dates in colophons.
Notes: One of 252 copies. Bound in tan paper boards, printed in gold; paper vellum shelfback and corners, printed in gold. Tissue dust jacket. In a protective box. Title in red and black; initials in red. "The publication committee of the Caxton club certifies that this copy of 'An essay on colophons' is one of an edition consisting of two hundred and fifty-two copies on French hand-made paper and three copies on imperial Japanese paper, printed from type, and completed in the month of August, nineteen hundred and five."
Subject headings (LCSH): Books--History--1450-1600.; Colophons.; Incunabula--Bibliography.; Incunabula.