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Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899 · London, H. Grevel and co. · leaf 94
? There were Denis Meslier, with his quartoHeures de Bourges, and Vincent Commin, bookseller ofthe Rue Neuve Notre Dame, who thus appealed to hiscustomers:— Qui veult en avoir? On en treuveA tres grand marche et bon prisA la Rose, dans la rue NeuveDe Nostre-Dame de Paris. There were also Robin… … Fig. 31.—Plate from a book of hours of Simon Vostre, representingthe massacre of the Innocents. sale at this epoch, the dealers did not keep to pious pub-lications only. By a singular mixture of the sacred andthe profane, the bookmen put on sale on their stalls the 84 THE PRINTED BOOK. Decameron of…
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