“‘Of making many books,’ ’twas said,
‘There is no end;’ and who thereon
The ever-running ink doth shed
But proves the words of Solomon:
Wherefore we now, for Colophon,
From London’s City drear and dark,
In the year Eighteen-eighty-one,
Reprint them at the press of Clark.”
The accompanying Mark was designed by Mr. Walter Crane, and first used by Messrs. Clark in 1881. It is used in several sizes. Of the very handsome Mark of Messrs. T. and A. Constable, the Queen’s Printers, at the University Press, we may mention that the legend is a hexameter; it was written by Professor Strong, and contains two puns; the ship is an old Constable device. The Marks of both Messrs. Chatto and Windus (who succeeded to the business, started and carried on with such energy by the late John Camden Hotten) and Messrs. Macmillan and Co. (whose firm dates from the year 1843) are characterized by the extremest possible simplicity.