Verard's Horae of 1486 and 1487 are said to have been printed for him by Jean Du Pre, and in the next group of editions Du Pre on his own account seems to have played the chief part, with Levet and Caillaut as subordinate actors. It is probable that the group may have been started by a Psalter printed by Levet 23 September, 1486, and reprinted 19 February, 1488-9, the cuts of these appearing in an undated _Horae ad usum Romanum_, printed by Du Pre, now in the British Museum. This measures about 4(5/8) X 3(1/4) inches, and of the same size, but with different woodcuts, are another undated Horae by Du Pre in the Bodleian, and a third, with Caillaut's mark at the end, in the Bibliotheque Nationale. The cuts in all three are delightfully simple and naive, and those in the Bodleian Du Pre edition show really delicate work. The group, which comprised other editions only known from fragments, seems to be continued by two dated respectively 10 May, 1488, and 4 February, 1488-9, each measuring about 5(5/8) X 3(5/8) inches, the illustrations in which are distinctly stated to have been cut on copper (_les vignettes de ces presentes heures imprimees en cuyvre_). The illustrations especially referred to are the borderpieces, which are of great importance as containing the earliest examples of a series of small Horae cuts continued from page to page, in this case depicting incidents in the life of Christ and their prefigurements, on the plan of the old block-book _Biblia Pauperum_. Lastly, in 1490, we have a Du Pre Horae, with very fine cuts and with some of the miscellaneous borderpieces of the editions just mentioned, which is of exceptional interest in the history of French book-illustration and printing, since the cuts and borders in it are printed in different colours, faint red, blue and green, two colours (laid on the same block and printed at the same time) usually appearing together. The British Museum possesses one of two known copies of this Horae, and the late Prince d'Essling bought the other. [Illustration: XX. PARIS, VERARD, 1490 GRANDES HEURES (SIG. C 6 VERSO). MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS]