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An Essay On Colophons, With Specimens And Translations

An Essay On Colophons, With Specimens And Translations

W. Pollard, Alfred

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354942687
ISBN13: 9789354942686
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Aug 17 2021
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
An inviting doorway into a hidden world of make and meaning. An Essay On Colophons, With Specimens And Translations opens the door to every bibliophile's longing: how printed words become enduring artefacts of culture. This compact, devastatingly precise study blends bibliographical essay with practical insight into colophon history and the disciplines of textual criticism overview. Pollard guides reading beyond the surface, exploring how printers' marks, binding choices, and translation specimens illuminate the life of a book. It is a work for librarians and for rare book collectors alike, a careful map of early modern printing traditions and Victorian era England's publishing milieu. The book speaks to anyone who cares about book printing practices as more than mechanics but as a record of intellectual stewardship and cultural memory. Historically significant yet accessible, this volume sits at the crossroads of book history scholarship and material culture. It rewards casual readers with lucid passages about how editions travel through time, and it rewards scholars with a careful, methodical framework for studying colophons and their signals. More than a reprint, it is a collector's item and a cultural treasure-restored for today's readers and for future generations. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this edition reclaims a vanished dialogue between makers and readers. A complete collection worth cherishing.

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