El colofón en el libro y la imprenta en México siglos XVI al XXI

Abstract

During the epoch of incunabula, the colophon fulfilled sometimes the functions of cover since it proportioned the data which today figure in it. Martinez de Souza mentions that since all these data appeared in the cover, the colophon went acquiring only an ornamental function. Thus the colophon flourished until the cover replaced it, in the XVI century, and until the private press initiated a movement in the XIX century in which it newly gained importance in the printed book. The general objective of this book is to make known the presence of the colophon in Mexico, from the XVI to the XXI centuries, about the legal aspects, and especially of the colophon as an artistic expression, since several printers of the XVI century took great care for it to have an artistic value and gave it different forms.