In connection with these romances and with some few other classes of literature, the book-makers of Lyons gave particular attention to the production of high-class illustrations. They used for the purpose the work not only of French, but of foreign designers and engravers. The printer Le Roys, for instance, employed Holbein to design a new _Dance of Death_, and also to prepare a series of illustrations for the New Testament. In 1488, Jacques Locher published an edition of the famous _Ship of Fools_, accompanied by graphic illustrations from an unknown artist. Locher’s edition was issued in Latin. The first French translation, under the title _La Nef des Fouls_, appeared in 1497. This was followed a little later by a companion work published under the title of _La Nef des Folles_, which illustrated in like manner the absurdities of women in various walks of life. The first Paris printer who was able to present in his text any Greek characters was Jodocus Badius, who issued, in 1505, the _Annotationes in Novum Testamentum_ of Laurentius Valla, in which several passages of Greek were of necessity included. In 1519, the same publisher issued an impression of the _Institutiones Imperiales_, in which were included a few Greek passages. The characters for the type used in these were designed by a certain Hermonymus, a Lacedæmonian, who was at the time sojourning in Paris. In 1507, a Greek Press was established in Paris by Giles Gourmont. The Press was under the general supervision of the University, but the immediate responsibility for the undertaking rested with Francis Tissard. Tissard was a French scholar, who, having studied in Padua and Bologna, had become imbued with an earnest zeal for the development of classical scholarship in France. He had secured instruction in Greek from a certain Demetrius Spartiata, and it was his special object to establish in the University of Paris the study of Greek language and literature, and to bring the cost of Greek books within the means of the poorer instructors and students. The few scholars in France who had heretofore been interested in Greek books had been obliged to incur the expense of securing these from Milan or from Venice. Tissard succeeded in interesting in his undertaking the Duke de Valois, who afterwards, as Francis I., rendered most important service to the cause of literature for France and for Europe. As the first Greek book issued from the Press of Aldus, twelve years earlier, had very properly been a _Grammar_ for the instruction in Greek of students already proficient in Latin, in like manner the volume selected by Tissard as the first issue from Gourmont’s Press was an elementary work containing the Greek alphabet, the rules of pronunciation, and exercises for the beginner.