There are a great many more alphabets of Paris printers that we should have liked to reproduce, had it been possible to multiply our examples indefinitely--amongst them that of Kerver, of which we give the C with a knight in armour. The three others, B, C, and L, are coarse copies of Kerver letters used in England, these being taken from a medical work by Bullein. Of the next three, the L with a saint is a copy of the same letter of Rembolt, the two others from Philip le Noir both recurring frequently in his impressions. The P with a master and pupils is from the press of N. de la Barre. The three little pen letters are from the same source. We cannot bring this short selection of Parisian letters to a close without mentioning the Royal letters designed by Geoffroy Tory and used by Robert Estienne in a Bible and in other books after 1536. Independently of the accessory ornamentation, the letters themselves have since served as models of proportion. CHAPTER XII FRENCH PROVINCIAL TOWNS Of provincial French towns after Lyons the most important as regards the history of printing are Troyes and Rouen. In the former the chief printers using initial letters were the Lerouges and J. Lecoq. The five large letters, C, C, D, L, S, with Chinese-looking dragons and birds, together with the B of an entirely different character representing David and his harp, no doubt the initial letter of some Psalter, were used in the impressions of the Lerouges, and were taken from one of their finest books, _La thoison d’or_. These printers worked for Paris publishers, particularly for Vérard, and the calligraphic alphabet of the latter, given above, formed part of their material. Of Lecoq we give two sets. The specimens, with grotesque profiles, are from a monumental _Graduale Trecense_ in which there are altogether between twenty and thirty different varieties, from the _Vie de Monseigneur St. Bernard_, printed for Macé Panthoul, and from a _Statuta synodalia_ of the ‘State and Diocese of Troyes,’ printed by order of the Reverend Bishop Odard Hennequin. The I, the Q with a fool and his accoutrements, the S with a profile on each side and a bird’s head and upper beak above, the larger F and the V also with two profiles and a face with porcine snout on the top, are only to be found in the _Statuta Synodalia_.