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Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899 · London, H. Grevel and co. · leaf 102
writing,and it was so up to the middle of the sixteenth century.In an edition of Dcs Cas des Nobles Homines, by JeanDupre, in 1483, Boccaccio is represented seated, havingbefore him his French translator, Laurent de Premierfait.This plate is one of the oldest representations ofauthors in French… … Une nuyt comme je songeoye,Et de fait dormir me convient,En dormant un songe madvint. . . . There is also a portrait of Alain Chartier in his Fails, 92 THE PRINTED BOOK. printed in 1489. In the Terence of Treschel, of L3^ons,in 1493, we see a grammarian of the fifteenth centuryin a furnished room…
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