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Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899 · London, H. Grevel and co. · leaf 103
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 of… … Fig. 37.—The Knight, a woodcut from Caxtons Game andPlayc of the Chesse. were by no means idle, although the illustration of theBook in the fifteenth century was not there so forward.William Caxton had produced over sixty works, thecolophons of many of them revealing much of thepersonal life and…
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