---- Another edition of the same romance, printed at Rouen, without date, by the widow of Louis Costé, 4to. A mere ballad-style of publication: perhaps not later than 1634.--the date of our wretched and yet most popular impression of the Knights of the Round Table.
DAIGREMONT ET VIVIAN. Printed by Arnoullet, at Lyons, in 1538, 4to. It is executed in a handsome gothic letter, in long lines. This copy is bound up with the first edition of the Cronique de Florimont--for which turn to a preceding page[90]. In the same volume is a third romance, entitled
LA BELLE HELAYNE, 1528, 4to.:--Printed by the same printer, with a singular wood-cut frontispiece; in a gothic character not quite so handsome as in the two preceding pieces.
JOURDAIN DE BLAVE. A Paris, par Nicolas Chrestien," 4to. Without date. Printed in double columns, in a small coarse gothic letter.
DOOLIN DE MAYENCE. A Paris--N. Bonfons. Without date, 4to. Probably towards the end of the sixteenth century; in double columns, in the roman letter. Here is another edition, printed at Rouen, by Pierre Mullot; in roman letter; in double columns. A coarse, wretched performance.
MEURVIN FILS D'OGER, &C. A Paris;--Nicolas Bonfons." 4to. Without date. In the roman letter, in double columns. A fine copy.
MELUSINE. Evidently by Philip le Noir, from his device at the end. It is executed in a coarse small gothic letter; with a strange, barbarous frontispiece. Another edition, having a copy of the same frontispiece,--"Nouuellement Imprimee a Troyes par Nicolas Oudot. 1649." 4to. Numerous wood-cuts. In long lines, in the roman letter.
TREBISOND. At the end: for "Iehan Trepperel demourãt en la rue neufue nostre dame A lenseigne de lescu de frãc. Without date, 4to. The device of the printer is at the back of the colophon. This impression is executed in the black letter, in double columns, with divers wood-cuts.
HECTOR DE TROYE. The title is over a bold wood-cut frontispiece, and Arnoullet has the honour of being printer of the volume. It is executed in the black letter, in long lines. After the colophon, at the end, is a leaf containing a wood-cut of a man and woman, which I remember to have seen more than once before.
And now, methinks, you have had a pretty liberal assortment of ROMANCES placed before you, and may feel disposed to breathe the open air, and quit for a while this retired but interesting collection of ancient tomes. Here, then, let us make a general obeisance and withdraw; especially as the official announce of "deux heures viennent de sonner" dissipates the charm of chivalrous fiction, and warns us to shut up our volumes and begone.