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Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899 · London, H. Grevel and co. · leaf 130
ver did anythingbetter. Within the scanty proportions of the design,all the figures are portraits. Duprat, Montmorency andthe three sons of the King may be recognised ; Macault,on the left, is reading his translation to a circle of noblesand men of letters. This admirable page is one of thetruest… … Fig. 52.—Macault reading to Francis I. his translation of DiodorusSiculus. Wood engraving attributed to Tory. I20 THE PRINTED BOOK. school of Fontainebleau. Geoftroy Tory was not thepublisher. The Diodorus Siculus, doubtless pre-pared two or three years before, was not publisheduntil 1535, in…
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