[268] Here and elsewhere we find the apostrophe, but its use is not yet constant. The compositors were not used to the sign, which was employed to designate the suppression of a letter for euphony's sake.
[269] It may be that we should read 1536 new style, as Easter fell in that year on April 16. We add this book to Tory's list, although he was dead at that time, because it was evidently begun by him and finished by his widow.
[270] M. Ambroise Firmin Didot owned a copy of this book, on paper, in its ancient binding, with the Pot Cassé. He owned also another copy, on vellum.
[271] [This paragraph was added by the author after his second edition had gone through the press.]
[272] In his Peintre-graveur français, M. Robert-Dumesnil mentions an edition of this book with the date 1538, Paris, G. Tory; which is impossible, as Tory died in 1533.
[273] See M. Brunet's Manuel de Libraire, 5th edit. vol. iii, col. 144.
[274] There is a copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale, to which is added: La suite de l'Adolescence clémentine, with 3 preliminary leaves and 126 of text, on the last of which is the mark of Pierre Roffet, signed with the Lorraine cross [see page 137, supra]; but not printed by Tory, for the book was printed for the widow of Roffet, and the latter did not die, it is supposed, until 1537, after Tory's death.
[275] [It should be borne in mind that the word miniature as used in this book has not its ordinary present-day signification; it means here any ornamented or coloured design of small dimensions.]