. Books and bookmen ... his title-page, ofthe same date, for the small octavo edition ofAlain Chartiers poems, which we reproduce here. Mr. Payne does not give the date of the edition from whichhe copies the cut. Apparently it is of the fifteenth century.^ Reproduced in The Library, p. 94. 132 BOOKS AND BOOKMEN, The arrangement of letters, and the use ofred, make a charming frame, as it were, to the ^^ LES OEVVRES^ feu malftreAIafn chartier en Ton viuan t Secretaire du feu roy Char* Us fepcierme dunon. Nouuellc^ mentfinprimees reueuesS^ corrigiees ouiire les pre ccdctes ImprcfTxons. Jiton les
. Books and bookmen ... his title-page, ofthe same date, for the small octavo edition ofAlain Chartiers poems, which we reproduce here. Mr. Payne does not give the date of the edition from whichhe copies the cut. Apparently it is of the fifteenth century.^ Reproduced in The Library, p. 94. 132 BOOKS AND BOOKMEN, The arrangement of letters, and the use ofred, make a charming frame, as it were, to the ^^ LES OEVVRES^ feu malftreAIafn chartier en Ton viuan t Secretaire du feu roy Char* Us fepcierme dunon. Nouuellc^ mentfinprimees reueuesS^ corrigiees ouiire les pre ccdctes ImprcfTxons. Jiton les V end a Parisen b grantfalledupalaisau premier PillietenlabouticquedeUalHordu pre Lmbjrairc iure d e Ltmiuerfire. drawing of the mediaeval ship, with the mottoVOGUE LA GALEE. Title-pages like these, with designs appro- PASTISSIER FRANCOIS. 9 Qa efl enfeigne b maniere de fiire couce forte de PaftiCTe- riCi cres-uulearoDceforte de perfonnes. ENSEMBLE le)mo)-en d^prefier tomes furtu daufi^urUsjQUTs tnat£^is &aiitrcs,. AA ^ MSTE E. D ^ K Ctez L01175 S: Daniel. Elzevfer*A U DC IV. 134 BOOKS AND BOOKMEN. priate to the character of the text, were super-seded presently by the fashion of badges, devices,and mottoes. As courtiers and ladies had theirprivate badges, not hereditary, like crests, butpersonal—the crescent of Diane, the salamanderof Francis L, the skulls and crossbones of HenriIII., the marguerites of Marguerite, with mottoeslike the Lc Banny de Hesse, Le traverseur desvoles perilleuses, Tout par Souias, and the like,so printers and authors had their emblems,and their private literary slogans. These theychanged, according to fancy, or the vicissitudesof their lives. Clement Marots motto was LaMort 7iy Mord. It is indicated by the lettersL. M. N. M. in the curious title of an edition ofMarots works published at Lyons by Jean deTournes in 1579. The portrait represents thepoet when the tide of years had borne him farfrom his youth, far from LAdolescence Clemen-tine. The unfor
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