[461] This book is described on p. [244], supra.
[462] Bibliothèque Nationale.
[463] See the collection of Tory's work in the Print Section of the Bibliothèque Nationale.
[464] Sermonum liber unus ex Isocratis notione de regno, carmine heroico. Bibliothèque Mazarine.
[465] Bibliothèque Nationale.
[466] Bibliothèque de l'Institut.
[467] Bibliothèque Nationale.
[468] On p. 197. [Reproduced on p. [198].]
[469] The placing of these arms on the typographical mark of Gilles de Gourmont proves, in contradiction of the common opinion, that the printer's trade was not degrading. (But see what I have said on this subject in my book on the Origin of Printing, vol. i, p. 210, and vol. ii, p. 89.) The Gourmonts of Paris were in fact descended from a noble family of the Cotentin, which may still be in existence, and which bore the same arms in the seventeenth century. Gilles de Gourmont had taken up his abode in Paris in the last years of the fifteenth century, as had several of his brothers, who practised the same trade. The oldest, Robert, appears in that city as early as 1498; Jean, who was younger than Gilles, not until 1507. We hear also of a Jérôme and a Benoît as booksellers in Paris in the middle of the sixteenth century. I do not know what their relationship to the earlier men was. Perhaps they were sons of Robert. (Benoît, who married Catherine Goulard, had a son baptized by the name of Gilles at the church of Sainte-Croix-en-la-Cité, on October 9, 1546.) We also find a Jean Théobald de Gourmont at Antwerp in 1527. As for Gilles, he was engaged in bookselling and printing from 1506 to about 1533, and left two sons, Jean and François, who retained his establishment on rue Saint-Jean-de-Latran, and printed there, in 1587, the Tableaux des Arts Libéraux de Christophe de Savigny. This is an in-plano, at the beginning of which is a superb engraving representing the arms of the family [as described in the text]. This remarkable work, which bears the monogram of the two brothers, was probably executed by Jean, the elder, who was a painter and engraver. The Musée du Louvre has a picture supposed to be by him (Notice des tableaux du Louvre, part 3, p. 156); he is the author of a fine portrait of the Cardinal de Bourbon, mentioned by Mariette and now in the Cabinet des Estampes; he is mentioned also by Abbé de Marolles and by Papillon for certain pictures of equestrian groups and bits of decoration. His mark (formed of the letters I D G entwined) and the name accompanying it are found on several pieces cited by Brulliot, on the plates of a Bible of 1560, and on certain pieces of Tortorel and Perissim (Renouvier, Maîtres Graveurs du Seizième Siècle, p. 195 ). It will be seen that Gilles had worthy successors; unfortunately the race of the Gourmonts of Paris died out with them.
[470] [That is, consisting of unfolded sheets, so that each sheet forms only one leaf, or two pages.]