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Bouchot, Henri,1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C.(Edward Clements),1838?-1899, Grevel, H, Einsle, Anton,1848-1897 · London, H. Grevel & Co. · leaf 147

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, small enough to be lost in the ornamentation ofhis plates. In fact this sign is to be found again in Torysmark—the Pot Casse —the broken jar—and also sometimes inthe letter G, which was his ordinary signature. This opinion,which we will not try to contradict in a popular work like this,appears to… … Fig. 77.—Mark of Geoflroy Tory,printer at Paris, 1529. If M. A. Bernard* may be credited, Geoffroy Tory culti-vated all the sciences with equal success. For our purpose,suffice it to assign to him the first place in the art of decora-tion of books of hours. Doubtless his travels in Italyhad…

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