_Geneva._--Genevan incunabula are of the very greatest rarity, and very few initials of that town are mentioned by bibliographers. Of very large letters the most curious are two of the calligraphic L’s that are so popular on the title-pages of French impressions, and the larger of which is evidently inspired by a Paris or Lyons L of the same general design. Our reproduction comes from the _Doctrinal de Sapience_, printed in 1493, no doubt by Bellot, as the book has two impressions of the C of his alphabet. This composition is greatly superior to the French original, known as the January and May initial, and if the artist has intended to represent innocence and cunning, he has succeeded to perfection. Compared with it, that which may be found on the title-page of Verard’s edition of the _Doctrinal de Sapience_ and in many other works, is insipid. The letter with a hooded dog, or perhaps a monkey holding a book, with a clerk below, is accompanied on the title-page by a border representing the birth of Eve. As regards the volume itself, which is entitled _Les Fleurs et Manières des Temps passés_, it is without date or printer’s name, but at the beginning of the front page after the title is a Bellot A, whilst on the verso of the title is the mark of Loys M. Cruse. A still earlier _Doctrinal de Sapience_ of 1488, also without printer’s name or date, has a C on the second page of comparatively little interest, which has been reproduced by Humphreys in his _History of Printing_. The C reproduced here is at the beginning of the fourth page. A _Kalendrier des Bergers_ of J. Bellot, 1497, has a Q with a cock in the Lyons style, a curious U, and the P of his fine alphabet. Initials are occasionally met with in which the printer’s mark is worked into the design, as, for instance, a D of Kobel of Oppenheim. In a treatise on the right way of preaching, by that _sacratissimus_ doctor of the Christian Church, St. Thomas Aquinas, L. M. Cruse of Geneva in 1485 uses capitals which he embellishes with his own initials. Sorg and some Strasburg printers have ornamental letters with initials on them, but not corresponding to their own names--most likely to those of the artists. Better known than the large historiated letters just described is the alphabet of which we give the M, the N, and the T. These letters occur in many of Bellot’s publications, but in the _Dialogus Creaturarum_ it is nearly complete.