[430] And not August 20, as it has sometimes been printed.
[431] The 'Avis au lecteur' is by him.
[432] [According to the list there are 11.]
[433] [According to the list only 14.]
[434] See what I have said on this subject on p. [173], supra.
[435] See infra, § III, 'Le Coq.'
[436] These engravings are, as is well known to-day, by Luczelburger, of Basle, Holbein's regular engraver.
[437] These pages were intended to be used as an album. I have seen a very valuable copy at M. Potier's bookshop; he bought it of M. Gaullieur, who has described it in his études sur l'imprimerie de Genève, p. 207. This copy, which was arranged by Durand the bookseller, who emigrated to Geneva for religious reasons, has no title-page and contains only the empty pages, that is to say those with borders alone, within which Durand's friends, the most illustrious leaders of the Reformation—de Bèze, Goulard, etc.—have inscribed each some sentence. In some verses which come first, and which are admirably engrossed on parchment, Durand tells us that he wrote them in 1583, without spectacles, notwithstanding his great age and 'the gout in his fingers.'
[438] Bibliothèque Nationale.