An Essay on Colophons, with Specimens and Translations

Alfred William Pollard (1859–1944) was a distinguished English bibliographer, a towering figure in early 20th-century scholarship on medieval books and English literature. With an illustrious career rooted in the rich soil of English philology and literature, Pollard made substantial contributions to the fields of Shakespearean studies, Chaucerian texts, and incunabula — the earliest printed books...