Word of the Day: Colophon

Definitions for colophon

1. a publisher's or printer's distinctive emblem, used as an identifying device on its books and other works.

Citations for colophon

 

Sixty years is a ripe age for any trademark, but the people at the National Biscuit Co. boast that their 60-year-old symbol traces its line to prehistoric times. ... A bibliophile by avocation, he [A. W. Green, the corporation's first chairman] came across it in an old book depicting this fifteenth-century colophon (a device placed at the end of a book or manuscript) of the Society of Printers in Venice.