[17] The edition of _Catullus_, mentioned above, is ascribed to Andrea Belfortis, because the words ‘cui Francia nomen’ occur in the prefatory verses; and the same words occur, referring to Belfortis, in a book printed by him. But the types of the _Catullus_ and those used by Andrea Belfortis are certainly different, while both the types of the _Catullus_ are found in other books printed by Hahn. The _Catullus_ has also a Registrum Chartarum, which was almost invariably put to his books by Hahn. The latest writer[18] on the early history of printing in Venice has again revived the question as to the correctness of the date of the _Decor Puellarum_. Though he still clings to the possibility of the date 1461 being trustworthy, the weight of evidence, all of which is carefully stated, is decisively in favour of its being a misprint for 1471. [18] _The Venetian Printing Press._ By Horatio F. Brown. London, 1891. 4to. It would be useless to recapitulate here all the arguments in favour of Jenson having printed in 1461, when it is now generally admitted that John of Spire was the first printer at Venice, and that his first book was the _Epistolæ familiares_ of Cicero, issued in 1469. Of this book only one hundred copies were printed. On the 18th September 1469, the Collegio of Venice granted to John of Spire a monopoly of printing in that district for five years; and this document distinctly indicates that he was the first printer at Venice. He did not, however, live to obtain the advantage of this privilege, ‘nullius est vigoris quia obiit magister et auctor,’ says a contemporary marginal note to the record, for he died in 1470. Previous to his death he printed a _Pliny_, the first volume of a _Livy_, two editions of the _Epistolæ ad familiares_, and part of the Augustine _De civitate dei_, which was finished by his brother Windelin. ‘Subita sed morte peremptus Non potuit cœptum Venetis finire volumen.’