[439] It may be that this fragment belongs to a collection cited by M. Brunet (Manuel du Libraire, vol. iv, col. 850), under the title, Pourtraictz divers, small octavo, Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1557, as containing 63 plates, including the title-page. M. Brunet then gives a description of this collection, which cannot possibly fit it. 'These plates represent factories, animals, scenes of divers sorts, mythological subjects, and architectural designs.' This description evidently belongs to the volume of 1556 mentioned on the next page.
[440] These portraits and many other woodcuts of the de Tournes, which are still preserved in the Fick Press, at Geneva, have lately been reproduced in a sumptuous publication entitled: Anciens bois de l'imprimerie Fick, folio, Geneva, 1864. It contains many engravings of Petit Bernard.
[441] I have already cited (page [259]), on the authority of M. Didot, an edition of this book under the date of 1551, but I doubt its existence.
[442] The first 24 pages of this collection are bound with an edition of Claude Paradin's Quadrins historiques, published by Jean de Tournes, in 1558.
[443] This book was reprinted in 1557, with the title Pourtraictz Divers; see p. [260], note [1].
[444] [See pp. [201]-[202], supra.]
[445] For instance, the anonymous author of a book entitled Notice sur les Graveurs, printed at Besançon in 1807 (2 vols., octavo), attributes to Salomon Bernard, whose period of activity he places between 1550 and 1580 (vol. i, p. 63 ), the engravings of Petrarch's Triumphs, which appear in an edition of 1545, and a Resurrection of the Dead, dated 1547 (vol. i, p. 64), which dates are inconsistent with those mentioned above; he also attributes to him (vol. i, p. 65) the theatrical scenes which we have with good reason ascribed to Tory, whose cross appears on one of them; and, lastly, he attributes to him the story of Psyche, in 32 duodecimo cuts, and the medallions of Jacques Strada's Epitome des Antiquités (Lyon, 1553), his authorship of which is very doubtful. But there is no question at all concerning the following pieces, which certainly belong to Salomon Bernard:—
I. The figures of the Bible, to the number of 251, reprinted very frequently after 1553. In an edition of 1680, printed by Samuel de Tournes, at Geneva, whither the second Jean withdrew about 1580, because of his religion, is the following note: 'The figures that we offer you here are from the hand of an excellent craftsman, known in his day under the name of Salomon Bernard, called Le Petit Bernard, and have always been held in esteem by those who are learned in works of this sort.'
II. Claude Paradin's Devises héroiques, containing 184 engravings, besides a border on the title-page. Large octavo, Jean de Tournes, 1557 ( Bibliothèque Nationale). The license at the end of the volume discloses the titles of several other volumes which Jean de Tournes was then intending to publish, particularly the two following, which appeared the same year.
III. The Metamorphoses of Ovid; octavo, 1557; 178 engravings.