Tendencies of the regency of Marie de Medicis--Thomas de Leu and Leonard Gaultier--J. Picart and Claude Mellan--Lyons and J. de Fornazeris--The Book at the beginning of the seventeenth century in Germany, Italy, and Holland--Crispin Pass in France--The Elzevirs and their work in Holland--Sebastian Cramoisy and the Imprimerie Royale--Illustration with Callot, Della Bella, and Abraham Bosse--The publishers and the Hotel de Rambouillet--The reign of Louis XIV.; Antoine Vitré syndic at his accession--His works and mortifications; the Polyglot Bible of Le Jay--Art and illustrators of the grand century--Sébastien Leclerc, Lepautre, and Chauveau--Leclerc preparing the illustration and decoration of the Book for the eighteenth century--The Book in England in the seventeenth century. CHAPTER V. THE BOOK IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 184 The regency--Publishers at the beginning of the eighteenth century--Illustrators in France; Gillot--The school of Watteau and Boucher--Cars--The younger Cochin; his principal works in vignettes--French art in England; Gravelot--Eisen--Choffard--The _Baisers_ of Dorat; the _Contes_ of La Fontaine--The publisher Cazin and the special literature of the eighteenth century--The younger Moreau and his illustrations--The Revolution--The school of David--Duplessis-Bertaux--The Book in Germany; Chodowiecki--In England; Boydell and French artists--Caslon and Baskerville--English books with illustrations--Wood engraving in the eighteenth century; the Papillons--Printing offices in the eighteenth century. CHAPTER VI. THE BOOK IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 218 The Didots and their improvements--The folio Racine--The school of Didot--Fine publications in England and Germany--Literature and art of the Restoration--Romanticism--Wood engraving--Bewick's pupils, Clennell, etc.--The illustrators of romances--The generation of 1840--The Book in our days in Europe and America. CHAPTER VII. TYPES, IMPRESSION, PAPER, INK 239 CHAPTER VIII. BOOKBINDING 253 The binding of the first printed books--Ancient German bindings--Binding in the time of Louis XII.--Italian bindings--Aldus--Maioli--Grolier--Francis I.--Henry II. and Diane de Poitiers--Catherine de Medicis--Henry III.--The Eves--The "fanfares"--Louis XIII.--Le Gascon--Florimond Badier--Louis XIV.--Morocco leathers--Cramoisy--The bindings of the time of Louis XIV.--The regency--Pasdeloup--The Deromes--Dubuisson--Thouvenin--Lesné--The nineteenth century--English binders--Roger Payne--Francis Bedford. CHAPTER IX. LIBRARIES 290 INDEX 305 THE PRINTED BOOK. CHAPTER I. 14.. TO 1462.