TREBISOND.  At the end:  for “Iehan Trepperel demourat en la rue neufue nostre dame A lenseigne de lescu de frac.  Without date, 4to.  The device of the printer is at the back of the colophon.  This impression is executed in the black letter, in double columns, with divers wood-cuts.

HECTOR DE TROYE.  The title is over a bold wood-cut frontispiece, and Arnoullet has the honour of being printer of the volume.  It is executed in the black letter, in long lines.  After the colophon, at the end, is a leaf containing a wood-cut of a man and woman, which I remember to have seen more than once before.

And now, methinks, you have had a pretty liberal assortment of ROMANCES placed before you, and may feel disposed to breathe the open air, and quit for a while this retired but interesting collection of ancient tomes.  Here, then, let us make a general obeisance and withdraw; especially as the official announce of “deux heures viennent de sonner” dissipates the charm of chivalrous fiction, and warns us to shut up our volumes and begone.

[81] [The only copy of it in England, UPON VELLUM, is that in the Royal
    Library in the British Museum.]

[82] [It seems that it is a production of the GIUNTI Press.  Cat. des
    Livr. &c. sur Velin, vol. ii. p. 59.]

[83] [I learn from M. Crapelet that this book is a Lyons Counterfeit
    of the Aldine Press; and that the genuine Aldine volume, upon
    vellum, was obtained, after my visit to Paris, from the Macarthy
    Collection.]

[84] [I had blundered sadly, it seems, in the description of this book in
    the previous edition of this work:  calling it a Theocritus, and
    saying there was a second copy on large paper.  M. Crapelet is
    copious and emphatic in his detection of this error.]

[85] [I thank M. Crapelet for the following piece of information—­from
    whatever source he may have obtained it:  “The library of Henri II. and
    Diane de Poictiers was sold by public auction in 1724, after the death
    of Madame La Princesse Marie de Bourbon, wife of Louis-Joseph, Duc de
    Vendome, who became Proprietor of the Chateau d’Anet.  The Library, was
    composed of a great number of MSS. and Printed Books, exceedingly
    precious.  The sale catalogue of the Library, which is a small
    duodecimo of 50 pages, including the addenda, is become very scarce.” 
    CRAPELET; vol. iii. 347.

My friend M. GAIL published a very interesting brochure, about ten years ago, entitled Lettres Inedites de Henri II.  Diane de Poitiers, Marie Stuart, Francois, Roi Dauphin &c.  Amongst these letters, there was only ONE specimen which the author could obtain of the united scription, or rather signatures, of Henry and Diana.  Of these signatures he has given a fac-simile; for which the Reader, in common with myself, is here indebted to him.  Below this united signature, is one of Diana HERSELF—­from a letter entirely written in her own hand.  It must be confessed that she was no Calligraphist.

    [Autographs:  Henri II, Diane de Poitiers]