device at p. 40, was taken) of the date of 1512, containing excerpts from the works of St. Cyprian, I find the worthy name of Berthold Remboldt in conjunction with ONE which of late has thrilled throughout Europe! Read, patriotic reader, what hereafter followeth :' vigiliis et sumptibus magistri Bartholdi Rembolt, et Ioannis WATERLOE calcographorum peritissimorum ac veracissimorum collecta et impressa: quorum distinctio fronte sequenti notatur.' What a cluster of amusing anecdotes, relating to our ancient printers, might a little research bring together?

We now approach the LE NOIRS-MICHEL and PHILIPPE see the fac-similes of their devices at pages 42-3, ante. There is a smaller and prettier device of Michel's, between 3 and 4 inches high, with birds below his shield bearing his initials, having the inscription of

Cest mon desir de Dieu Seruir

Pour acquerir son doux Plaisir.

La Caille gives the date of 1489 to Michel's first performance: (Le Chevalier

deliberé en la mort du Duc de Bourgoyne;') and to his work (p. 64, copied by Maittaire, vol. i. p. 236) the reader is referred for the epitaph of the same printer; who died in 1520, and left monies for the chanting of Masses for the repose of the souls of himself and his wife JANE TEPPERE. PHILIP was one of his children; and in a French translation of Orosius, of the date of 1526 (in the possession of the Rev. J. M. Rice) he is called 'Libraire et Relieur:' as indeed were the generality of early Parisian printers. Philip's magnificent device was taken from a copy of Bocace's Genealogie des Dieux,' of 1531; in the very curious and interesting collection of my friend Mr. Lang. It is not, as La Caille (p. 91) observes, the same mark as his father's :'

Your pardons I crave,

Ye CARONS, and BELINS, and BENIAUTS brave-
Ye MAILLETS, and LAURENS, and TREPPERELS fair,
Ye LAMBERTS, RICHARDS, and MACES debonnair!

if I pass by ye, to pay a few minutes of respect to those distinguished typographical wights, Denis Roche, Guillaume Eustace, Andreas Bocard, Iehan Petit, Pierre and Francis Regnault, and Thielman Kerver! The spirit of Udalricus Gering animate and sustain me in these sketches-of men, dear to their country, celebrated in their day, and of a reputation, yet to be more extensively circulated and acknowledged! First, then, of DENIS ROCHE. He commenced printing in 1490, according to the authority of Le Long, as cited by Maittaire, p. 528, note 8; although La Caille first mentions an impression of the later date of 1499. He was a most indefatigable printer; and his device, as given at page 44, ante, is, I think, among the prettier ones of the period in which he lived.

But of EUSTACE-how can I speak in adequate terms of commendation ? What splendid, what amusing, what truly valuable works are indebted to his press for their existence? Bear witness St. Denis and Froissart-to mention no others! Of the former, a brief notice will be found at page 29, ante: of the latter, methinks I see, in imagination, upon the sloping piece of mahogany at my

left hand, the lovely and matchless copies, one upon paper, the other UPON VELLUM, which adorn the shelves of the Althorp and Hafod Collections: over the latter of which, in the silence of remote retirement, the bibliomaniac sighs with more than ordinary mental anguish, when he thinks that the hands, which lately turned over its pages with profit to the world, are now stiffened in death! No vulgar hands have reposed upon that same vellum copy-it was once De Thou's, and afterwards the Prince de Soubise's; at the sale of whose library in 1786 (Cat. de Soubise, no. 6818*) it was purchased by Mr. Paris for 2999 livres, 19 sous; and from the sale of whose library, in turn, it was purchased by Mr. Johnes (I need hardly add, the last owner of the Hafod copy!) for 149l. 2s. A remark in the Paris Catalogue, no. 546, says, nothing has been spared in its binding by De Rome:'... I wish everything had been spared: at least, that

Monsieur De Rome had never applied his trenchant instruments to such a copyfor know, cultivator of bibliographical virtù, that its previous and precious binding was that of DE THOU's library-(Vox faucibus hæret!") mellow-tinted red morocco, with the arms, as usual, of that magnificent bibliomaniacal President' upon the sides-and in such binding it came from the Soubise Collection! I am sufficiently well acquainted with De Rome's 'trenchant' propensities to conceive what must have been the amplitude of margin which this unique copy once possessed. But where was the taste of Monsieur Paris? Of the two, he was surely the greater culprit. Return we now, for a minute only, to the printer of these delicious tomes. I question if Eustace published any thing on his own account before the year 1498, or 1500. He, and JEHAN MAURANA, printed the Grands Chroniques de France,' (often called de St. Denis) in 1493, folio, for Anthony Verard;