It may be here observed that it has been our constant practice to reproduce our specimens exactly as they appear in the original, in order to give them the documentary interest that they lose when retouched. In this case these initials were too badly daubed over with paint for gillotype reproduction, and the first nine were obtained by photographing on wood and then engraving. They are good facsimiles of the originals, but without what may be called their _patine_. It was subsequently ascertained that the colour in most instances was easily removable, and the other five letters were copied in the usual way. The reader can compare the results of the two processes. The smaller alphabet, engraved also on wood, is complete in the _Vie de Monseigneur St. Bernard_, but occasional letters are to be met with in many of Lecoq’s later impressions. Amongst these may be mentioned an excessively rare little Latin primer on the plan of the Donatus, with Lecoq’s _marque parlante_ on the title-page, and with the E of this alphabet at the beginning of the title, which runs as follows: _Epithoma sive breviarium octo partium orationis gramaticalis adiectis grãmatice principiis ad completam grammaticam introductoriũ_. Rouen was an important centre of printing at the beginning of the sixteenth century, a great many publishers in other towns and countries having the works which they edited printed in this city. This was often the case with books apparently of Caen. We shall have to speak of a _Histoire de Commines_, supposed to have been printed at Paris, but really printed at Rouen. The earliest work from which we have made reproductions is an exposition of the Psalms by Petrus de Harentals, with a very long title beginning _Psalterii expositio Petri de Harentals viri religione clarissimi_, etc.; at the end ‘Impressum in officina Laurentii Hostingue et Jameti Loys,’ 1504. It is stated, moreover, to be sold at Paris by J. Petit and Robert Macé, the large mark of the latter occupying the verso of the last leaf. From this book the series of letters with heads, curious little animals, and compound monstrosities are taken. The large P with a man holding up his hand is on the title-page. In another volume, the _Singularissimum et eximium opus universis mortalibus sacratissimi ordinis Seraphici patris nostri francisci_, etc., printed by Martin Morin in 1509, are the I with two dragons, the H corresponding to it, and the second H with a woman in a Norman bonnet such as the peasants wear to this day. The only remaining initial we have met with of this style and size, the P with a man with a pointed cap and tassel, is to be found on the first page of the text of a _Coustumier de Normandie_, belonging to Mr. Quaritch.