. Books and bookmen ... derof 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 y
. Books and bookmen ... derof 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 unfortunate Etienne Dolet, perhaps theonly publisher who was ever burned, used anominous device, a trunk of a tree, with the axestruck into it. In publishing Les Margueritesde la Marguerite des Princesses, tres illustreRoyne de Navarre, Jean de Tournes employeda pretty allegorical fancy. Love, with thebandage thrust back from his eyes, and with. A ^€z l<aaysict!j)ani^L Elsevier ^.jSj^^. 136 BOOKS AND BOOKMEN. the bow and arrows in his hand, has flown up tothe sun, which he seems to touch ; like Pro-metheus in the myth when he stole the fire,a shower of flowers and flames falls around , of Paris, had for motto Nul ne syfrotte^ with the thistle for badge. These arebeautifully combined in the title-page of hisversion of Apuleius, LAmour de Cupido et dePsyche (Paris, 1557). There is probably nobetter date for frontispieces, both for ingenuityof device and for elegance of arrangement oftitle, than the years between 1530 and 1562, when the first edition of the famousFifth Book of Rabelais was published, theprinters appear to have thought devices wastedon popular books, and the title of the Mastersposthumous chapters is printed quite simply. In 1532-35 there was a more adventuroustaste—witness the title of Gargantua. Thisbeautiful title decorates the first known editio
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