Press

What the colophon knows

Type, paper, and the small print that tells you who stayed late to get the page right.

Letterpress type cases, drawers pulled open
Stock photo, Wikimedia Commons

The small print at the back is a room of its own. It names the type, the paper, and the people who stayed to get the hyphenation right.

Inkwell Press prints that note because a book should admit how it was made. The story is the front. The making is the courtesy.