IV. L'Astronomique Discours, by Jacques Bassentin; folio, 1557; with a large number of astronomical plates.
V. Hymnes du temps, by Guillaume Gueroult; quarto, 1560; 88 pages, with borders and drawings. In the avis au lecteur we read: 'I hope that you will find some pleasure herein, for that the whole is the work of a goodly hand; for the invention [of the engravings] is of M. Bernard Salomon, an excellent painter as there has ever been in our hemisphere.'
VI. Virgil's Æneid, French translation; quarto, 1560; with 12 vignettes.
VII. A book of Thermes, in eighteen orders; printed at Lyon in 1572, by Jean Marcorelle.—At the tenth therme is a genie carving on a shield the letter S, the initial of Bernard's baptismal name.
A large number of vignettes, and of letters in grisaille, used by the printers of Lyon, are also attributed to this artist.
[446] See what I have had to say on this subject apropos of Baïf's Annotations, supra, p. [208].
[447] Des Types et des Manières des maîtres graveurs, etc., 16th century, pp. 167, 168.
[448] Champ fleury, folio 43 verso.
[449] Eloi Gibier used previously a similar mark, which bore the following device: 'In sudore vultus tui vesceris pane tuo.' (See Silvestre, no. 544.) He used it particularly at the end of the Coutumes générales d'Orléans, 1570.
[450] Bibliothèque Nationale.