They include many different uses, especially that of Paris, Rome, Rouen and Sarum.

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Both Verard and Pigouchet produced Horae for the publisher Simon Vostre.

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It is incorrect to speak of editions of these Books of Hours; hardly any two copies appear to have been quite the same; fresh arrangements and combinations of a large stock of engraved blocks were made for the printing of almost every copy, and thus the long list given by Brunet is very incomplete; see the last volume of Brunet's Manuel du libraire, Paris, 1865.

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Sold in June, 1873, for £181, with the rest of the Perkins library.

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A copy of this glory of the printer's art in Mr Quaritch's possession is priced in his catalogue of 1891 at £5250; only eight copies are known to exist.

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