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Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899 · London, H. Grevel and co. · leaf 172
ance, in Paris, in the city then themost ready to understand and pay for the works ofeminent artists. In 1624 Gombauld published anEndymion—Boileau later associated Gombauld withother poets to declare him a maker of pitiable sonnets—Nicholas Buon, the bookseller named above, undertookthe… … II 162 THE PRINTED BOOK. poet; and it is due to truth to recognise how much Passwas above his collaborators. The following year, 1625,he engraved the Dionysiaqiies of Nonus, for RobertFouet, and the Roman dcs Romans of Du Verdier, com-prising more than ten engravings, in a very free andbold manner.…
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