Word: colophon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...literature of Europe, the U.S. and Latin America; in Purchase, N.Y. With his indispensable assistant Blanche Wolf, whom he married in 1916 (she died in 1966), Knopf brought out his first books only three years after he left college (Columbia), employing a Russian wolfhound as the firm's colophon. He not only had an uncanny ability to discover new writers who went on to achieve permanence and literary prizes, but he also set and maintained the highest standards of design and craftsmanship in book production. His early lists emphasized Russian authors, but he also published Thomas Mann, T.S. Eliot...