published more than 300 editions of the “Hours” for the use of different cities; he had two Marks, of which we give the larger example on p. 103. [Illustration: SIMON VOSTRE. S V SIMON VOSTRE] [Illustration: FRANÇOIS REGNAULT. Le premier volume de la toison dor. Compose par reuerend pere en dieu guillaume par la permission diuine iadis euesque de Tournay/ ab- be de sainct Bertin et chancellier de lordre de la Thoi son dor du bon duc Philippe de bourgongne Auquel soubz les vertus de magnanimite et iustice apparte- nans a lestat de noblesse sont contenus les haulx ver- tueux et magnanimes faictz tant des tres chrestiennes maisons de france/ bourgongne et flandres que dau- tres roys et princes de lancien et nouueau testament nouuellement imprime a Paris. Cum p[ri]uilegio F R FRANCOYS REGNAVLT ¶ Ilz se vendent a Paris en la rue sainct Iaques a lenseigne sainct Claude.] [Illustration: PIERRE REGNAULT. P R CONCORDIA PARVE RES CRESCVNT DISCORDIA MAGNE DILABVNTVR PETRVS REGNAVLT] [Illustration: GUY MARCHANT. Fides Ficit] [Illustration: DE MARNEF. Le pellicā E I G De marnef] [Illustration: J. DU PRÉ. I P] [Illustration: PIERRE LE ROUGE. .P. le Rouge] [Illustration: PHILIPPE LE NOIR. P N PHILIPPE LE NOIR] [Illustration: THIELMAN KERVER. T K THIELMAN KERVER] In many respects Jean or Jehan Petit is one of the most remarkable of the early French printers, whilst from the time he started to the final extinction of his descendants as printers covers a space of 336 years--a record which is probably unrivalled in the history of typography. Jehan Petit kept fifteen presses fully employed, and found a great deal of work for fifteen others. The family as a whole makes a good show with their marks, in which the founder is more extravagant than any of the others, having used, at one time or another, at least half-a-dozen more or less different examples. In addition to reproducing one of the finest, we give, on p. 9, also a reduced facsimile of a title-page of a book, the joint venture of Petit and Kerver; the combination of the two names on one title-page is distinctly novel and curious. He was on several occasions associated with others in producing a book, his connection with Josse Bade extending from 1501 to 1536. Of Bade or Badius it will be necessary to give a few particulars. He was born at Asche, near Brussels, and was a scholar and a poet as well as a printer. About 1495-7 he was engaged as a corrector of the press for Treschel and De Vingle at Lyons. He left about 1500 for Paris, where he started a press in 1502, which he called “Prelum Ascensianum.” In reference to this term, “the Ascension Press,” the word “prelum” was applied to the ancient wine presses, after which, in fact, the earliest printing presses were modelled. His Mark, which he first used in 1507, is the earliest picture of a printing-press. Thirteen years after, he