[359] This engraving was used later as a model for a magnificent plate placed at the beginning of the Tableaux des arts libéraux de Christophe de Savigny, published in 1587, in folio, by Jean and François de Gourmont, sons of Gilles. See my Les Estienne, p. 63, note.
[360] For the family of Gourmont, see my Les Estienne, pp. [62] and [63], notes.
[361] Not all of the engravings are signed; but, as I have not been able to inspect the volume, which was a part of the Boorluut library of Noortdonck, sold at Ghent in April, 1858, I am obliged to resort to the words of the compiler of the catalogue of that sale, my confrère M. Vander-Meersch, who has kindly furnished me since with some more detailed information (albeit less complete than I could have wished), after the volume was sent to England. M. Boorluut had paid 1 franc 50 centimes for the volume, which was sold to a London bookseller, Mr. Toovey, on April 19, 1858, for 270 francs. I wrote to him asking for details concerning it; but, in accordance with the not over-courteous English custom, he did not choose to tell me for whom he had purchased the book, so that I have been unable to obtain more ample information.
[362] I am not informed whether these cuts appear in Hore Marie Virginis ad usum Sarum, 1532, or in The Prymer of Salisbury, 1534, both of which were printed at the same establishment.
[364] See what I have heretofore said of this book, pp. [85]-[87] supra.
[365] [See pp. [126]-[128], supra].
[366] See what I have had to say of this book, pp. [128]-[129], supra; also, p. [218], infra, under the Hours of 1541, where we find these same borders, called 'à la moderne,' together with the plates of the Hours of 1529, described on p. [125], supra; which leads me to think that these same plates appeared in the octavo edition now under consideration. See also no. 1 of the year 1536 (p. [208], infra), which is a sort of link between the editions of 1531 and 1541.
[368] Revue Universelle des Arts, Sept. 1857 (vol. v, no. 3, p. 517).