Meanwhile, books with illustrations _en taille douce_ were being issued in some numbers both at Paris and at Amsterdam. In the former city Francois Chauveau (1613-76), in the latter Jan and Casper Luyken are credited by Mr. Hind (_A Short History of Engraving and Etching_, 1908) with having produced "hosts of small and undistinguished plates," and these damning epithets explain how it is that even patriotic French collectors like Eugene Paillet and Henri Beraldi thought it wise to leave the illustrated books of the seventeenth century severely alone. We meet the first advance guard of the brilliant French eighteenth century school of book-illustration in 1718, when a pretty little edition of _Les Amours de Daphnis et Chloe_ (as translated by Bishop Amyot from the Greek of Longus) made its appearance with twenty-eight plates by Benoit Audran, after the designs of no less a person than the Regent of France, and duly labelled and dated "Philippus in. et pinx. 1714." The plates vary very much in charm, but that with the underline _Chloe sauve Daphnis par le son de sa flute_ certainly possesses it, and one of the double-plates in the book, _Daphnis prend ses oyseaux pendant l'Hyver pour voir Chloe_, is really pretty. We find no other book to vie with this until we come to a much larger and more pretentious one, the works of Moliere in six volumes, royal quarto, published in 1734. This was illustrated with thirty-three plates, in the mixture of etching and engraving characteristic of the French school of the day, by Laurent Cars, after pencil drawings by Francois Boucher, and by nearly two hundred vignettes and tailpieces (not all different) after Boucher and others by Cars and Francois Joullain. Another edition of this in four volumes with Boucher's designs reproduced on a smaller scale was published in 1741 and reprinted three times within the decade. After the Moliere, books and editions which collectors take count of come much more quickly. There was an edition of Montesquieu's _Le Temple de Gnide_ in 1742 (imprint: Londres), a _Virgil_ in 1743 with plates by Cochin, engraved by Cochin pere, the _Contes_ of La Fontaine (Amsterdam, 1743-5) also illustrated by Cochin, Guer's _Moeurs et usages des Turcs_, with plates after Boucher (1746), an edition of the works of Boileau in five volumes, with vignettes by Eisen and tailpieces by Cochin (1743-5), and in 1753 a _Manon Lescaut_ (imprint: Amsterdam) with some plates by J. J. Pasquier, which are stiff, and others by H. Gravelot, which are feeble.