Corrozet’s “HECATOMGRAPHIE,” Paris, 1540, is a description of a hundred figures and histories, and contains Apophthegms, Proverbs, Sentences, and Sayings, as well ancient as modern. Each page of the 100 emblems is surrounded by a beautiful border, the devices are neat woodcuts, having the same borders with La Perrière’s _Theatre of good Contrivances_. There is also to each a page of explanatory French verses. It requires a stricter inquiry than I have yet been able to make in order to determine if Corrozet’s _Blasons domestiques_; _Blason du Moys de May_; and _Tapisserie de l’Eglise chrestienne & catholique_, bear a decided emblematical character; the titles have a taste of emblematism, but are by no means decisive of the fact. III.—Maurice Sceve’s _Delie, Object de plus haulte Vertu_, Lyons, 1544, with woodcuts, and 458 ten-lined stanzas on love, is included in the Blandford _Catalogue_; and in the Keir Collection are both _The very admirable, very magnificient and triumphant Entry of Prince Philip of Spain into Antwerp in 1549_,[55] by Grapheus, _alias_ Scribonius; edition 1550: and Gueroult’s _Premier Livre des Emblemes_; Lyons, 1550. The same year, 1550, at Augsburg, has marked against it “~Geschlechtes Buch~,”—_Pedigree-book_,—which recurs in 1580. Claude Paradin, the canon of Beaujeu, a small town on the Ardiere, in the department of the Rhone, published the first edition of his simple but very interesting _Devises heroiques_, with 180 woodcuts, at Lyons in 1557. It was afterwards enlarged by gatherings from Gabriel Symeoni and other writers; but, either under its own name or that of _Symbola heroica_ (edition 1567) was very popular, and before 1600 was printed at Lyons, Antwerp, Douay, and Leyden, not fewer than twelve times. The English translation, with which it is generally admitted that Shakespeare was acquainted, was printed in London, in 12mo, in 1591, and bears the title, _The Heroicall Devises of M. Clavdivs Paradin, Canon of Beauieu_, “Whereunto are added the Lord Gabriel Symeons and others. Translated out of Latin into English by P.S.” To another Paradin are assigned _Quadrins historiques de la Bible_, published at Lyons by Jean de Tournes, 1555; and of which the same publisher issued Spanish, English, Italian, German, and Flemish versions.