colophon

[Benjamin J Barrett]

For the online AHD4, I find

1. An inscription placed usually at the end of a book, giving facts
about its publication.

2. A publisher's emblem or trademark placed usually on the title page of
a book.

The definition on the metmuseum site is a poem or other comment for a
piece of work such as a painting by the artist, a recipient or an
admirer, which seems quite different.

Benjamin Barrett
Baking the World a Better Place
www.hiroki.us

-----Original Message-----
From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Laurence Horn

At 6:35 PM -0700 8/5/04, Benjamin J Barrett wrote:
>For some reason, I'm being blocked from the OED, but I couldn't find
>any glossaries online that allow for the meaning for colophon found at
>http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Chinese/html_pages/glossary.htm, a
>poem or other comment at the end of a piece of work.
>
>Is this meaning given in any dictionary?
>
Yes, AHD4's entry is similar but with somewhat less detail than this
glossary.

Larry