BERINUS ET AYGRES DE LAYMANT.  At bottom:  sold at “Paris par Jehan de Bonfons, 4to. No date. It is in double columns, black letter, with the device of the printer on the reverse of the last leaf.  A rare book.

JEAN DE PARIS.  “Le Romat de Iehan de Paris, &c. a Paris, par Jehan Bonfons, 4to. Without date.  In black letter, long lines:  with rather pretty wood-cuts.  A ms. note at the end says:  “Ce roman que jay lu tout entier est fort singulier et amusant—­cest de luy douvient le proverbe “train de Jean de Paris.”  Cest ici la plus ancienne edition.  Elle est rare.”  The present is a sound copy.  There are some pleasing wood-cuts at the end.

CRONIQUE DE CLERIADUS, &C. “On les vend a Lyon au pres de nostre dame de confort cheulx Oliuier Arnoullet.  At the end; 1529. 4to.  This edition, which is very scarce, is executed in a handsome gothic type, in long lines.  The present is a cropt but sound copy.

GUILLAUME DE PALERNE, &C.  At bottom—­beneath a singular wood-cut of some wild animal (wolf or fox) running away with a child, and a group of affrighted people retreating—­we read:  “On les vent a Lyon aupres Dame de Confort chez Oliuier Arnoulle.”  At the end is the date of 1552.

——­ Another edition of the same romance, printed at Rouen, without date, by the widow of Louis Coste, 4to.  A mere ballad-style of publication:  perhaps not later than 1634.—­the date of our wretched and yet most popular impression of the Knights of the Round Table.

DAIGREMONT ET VIVIAN. Printed by Arnoullet, at Lyons, in 1538, 4to.  It is executed in a handsome gothic letter, in long lines.  This copy is bound up with the first edition of the Cronique de Florimont—­for which turn to a preceding page[90].  In the same volume is a third romance, entitled

LA BELLE HELAYNE, 1528, 4to.:—­Printed by the same printer, with a singular wood-cut frontispiece; in a gothic character not quite so handsome as in the two preceding pieces.

JOURDAIN DE BLAVE. A Paris, par Nicolas Chrestien,” 4to. Without date.  Printed in double columns, in a small coarse gothic letter.

DOOLIN DE MAYENCE. A Paris—­N.  Bonfons. Without date, 4to.  Probably towards the end of the sixteenth century; in double columns, in the roman letter.  Here is another edition, printed at Rouen, by Pierre Mullot; in roman letter; in double columns.  A coarse, wretched performance.

MEURVIN FILS D’OGER, &C. A Paris;—­Nicolas Bonfons.” 4to. Without date.  In the roman letter, in double columns.  A fine copy.

MELUSINE.  Evidently by Philip le Noir, from his device at the end.  It is executed in a coarse small gothic letter; with a strange, barbarous frontispiece.  Another edition, having a copy of the same frontispiece,—­ “Nouuellement Imprimee a Troyes par Nicolas Oudot. 1649." 4to.  Numerous wood-cuts.  In long lines, in the roman letter.