Lovers of colophonic artistry should immediately check out this great collection of vintage colophons - A-G here and h-z here. My personal favourite is this one for Phantom Books - what's yours?
Jeremy Ettinghausen, Digital Publisher
(vintage colophons via Nevver and Draplin.com)
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The Red Daggar one, without a doubt. It certainly sums up the business in one quick image (I mean, you would never think they did pocket romances, would you?)
Posted by: Dan Metcalf | April 22, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Gotta love the morbidity, the pricing information, and most of all the miskeyed colour on Hangman's House Mark II:
http://www.colophons.bookscans.com/images/HHxx02.jpg
Posted by: John Self | April 24, 2009 at 03:57 PM
Is it bad that I am SUCH a geek that I'm actually in love with this blog post? Anyone know any great vintage book sites out there?
Posted by: Callum | April 24, 2009 at 07:23 PM
Playtime looks good, it looks like an interesting playtime as well!
And you have to admire Death House just for the guts to do it.
Posted by: garyFen | April 27, 2009 at 08:41 PM
I love this! I have set this
http://www.colophons.bookscans.com/images/dellxx01.jpg
as my desktop background and I keep minimizing all my windows just so I can look at it.
Posted by: Amanda | April 29, 2009 at 01:15 PM
It's a pity there's not a central archive for Publishers' colophons.
Even current images are difficult to locate on publishers own sites.
Having worked for many years for Wm.Heinemann, it now seems impossible to find their iconic Nicholson Windmill logo anywhere on the internet.
Posted by: Dave Gilbert | June 07, 2010 at 10:58 AM