. Books and bookmen ... 130 BOOKS AND BOOKMEN. the wine, Bacchus and Satan (exactly like eachother, as Sir Wilfrid Lawson will not be sur-prised to hear) are encouraging dishonest tavern- :^2lc0mct5^coitv pftfmcfee be (top CarS n\<xxiu. keepers to stew in their own juice in a caldronover a huge fire. From the same popular pub-lisher came a little tract on various modes ofsport, if the name of sport can be applied to the CLD FRENCH TITLE-PAGES. 131 netting of fish and birds. The work is styledLivret nouveau auquel sont contenuz xxvreceptes de prendre poissons et oiseaulx avecles mains. A cou
. Books and bookmen ... 130 BOOKS AND BOOKMEN. the wine, Bacchus and Satan (exactly like eachother, as Sir Wilfrid Lawson will not be sur-prised to hear) are encouraging dishonest tavern- :^2lc0mct5^coitv pftfmcfee be (top CarS n\<xxiu. keepers to stew in their own juice in a caldronover a huge fire. From the same popular pub-lisher came a little tract on various modes ofsport, if the name of sport can be applied to the CLD FRENCH TITLE-PAGES. 131 netting of fish and birds. The work is styledLivret nouveau auquel sont contenuz xxvreceptes de prendre poissons et oiseaulx avecles mains. A countryman clad in a goats skinwith the head and horns drawn over his head asa hood, is dragging ashore a net full of is no more characteristic frontispiece ofthis black-letter sort than the woodcut repre-senting a gallows with three men hanging on itwhich illustrates Villons Ballade des Pendus,and is reproduced in Mr. John Paynes Poemsof Master Francis Villon of Paris (London,1878).! Earlier in date than these vignettes of JacquesModerne, but much more artistic and refined indesign, are some frontispieces of small octavosprinted ^;^ lettres rondes, about 1530. In theserubricated letters are used with brilliant
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