From 1655 to 1666 Daniel and Louis printed a series of Latin Classics in various sizes. Louis died in 1670, and Daniel ten years later.

We now come to the closing years of the press, though reference must be made en passant to Isaac, another son of Matthieu, who established a press at Leyden in 1616, and continued to print there until 1625. None of his editions, however, attained any fame.

The last representatives of the Elzevir family were Peter, the grandson of Joost, who, during the years 1667-75, printed seven or eight volumes of little consequence, which were published at Utrecht, and Abraham, the grandson of the first Abraham, who, from 1681 to 1712, was University printer at Leyden. As the family pedigree is considerably involved, or, like most other pedigrees, appears to be so at first sight, I give a chart for the convenience of the reader, with the dates during which each member of the family flourished, omitting, however, the names of many other members of the family, who do not enter into the scope of the inquiry, and who were, in fact, not printers at all.

Louis,
Printer at Leyden,
1583-1617.
Matthieu,
Printer at Leyden,
1616-22.		Louis,
a Bookseller
at La Haye. [9]		Gilles,
a Bookseller
at La Haye.		Josse,
a Bookeller
at Utrecht.		Bonaventure,
Printer at Leyden,
1617-52.
Louis,
Printer at Amsterdam,
1638-64.		 Peter.Daniel,
Printer at Leyden,
1652-55;
at Amsterdam,
1655-80.
Abraham,
Printer at Leyden,
1626-52.		Isaac
Printer at Leyden,
1617-25.
Jean,
Printer at Leyden,
1652-61.		 Peter,
Publisher at Utrecht,
1667-75.
Abraham,
Printer at Leyden,
1681-1712.

The number of works issued from the press of the Elzevirs, whether at Leyden, Amsterdam, or Utrecht, numbers, according to Willems, 1608 different publications, of which 1213 bear the name or mark of the firm which issued them. Of these latter, 968 are in Latin, 126 in French, and the remainder in Greek, Flemish, German, Italian, and Hebrew. There is also a single volume, printed in English, which seems to have escaped the notice of bibliographers. It is entitled "Confession of Faith, and the Larger and Shorter Catechisme, &c., Amsterdam, printed by Luice Elsever, for Andrew Wilson, and are to be sold at his shop in Edinburgh, 1649". It is usually stated in works of reference that none of the Elzevir publications were printed in English, but the above, if it is genuine, affords an exception.

As every amateur is aware, the Elzevirs frequently—but not always—marked their title-pages with devices, of which the most frequent were the Sphere, the Hermit, Minerva, and the Eagle on a cippus (low column) holding in its claws a sheaf of seven arrows. As each firm adopted or relinquished the family marks to suit its convenience at the time, it becomes necessary to tabulate them for the purpose of avoiding confusion. The number in brackets gives the total number of books, not including catalogues, produced by the firm to which it is annexed.

The Leyden Press.

Louis Elzevir. 1583-1617 (102 books).
Marks.—A hand, with the device—"Æqvabilitate".
An angel with a book.
The Eagle (with seven darts representing the
seven provinces of the Netherlands) on a
cippus, with the inscription—"Concordia res
parvæ crescunt" (most frequent).
A book of music, opened.
Matthieu and Bonaventure Elzevir. 1617-1622 (71 books).
Marks.—The Eagle on a cippus.
The book of music, opened.
The Hermit, first appearing on the Acta Synodi
Nationalis, 1620 (Isaac Elzevir), motto—"Non
solus".