Thielman Kerver in his own works shows himself as the rival of Simon Vostre. The Hardouins, who followed the same profession, do not appear to have attained the success of their predecessors; and, excepting in the _Heures à l'Usage de Rome_, published in 1503 by Gilles Hardouin on the Pont au Change, at the sign of the "Rose," they servilely imitated them. There was also among the disciples of Vostre William Eustache, bookseller to the King, "tenant la boutique dedans la grant salle du palais du costé de messeigneurs les présidens, ou sur les grans degrés du costé de la conciergerie à l'ymage St. Jean levangeliste." Eustache made use of the work of Pigouchet and Kerver, not to mention the printers of the end of the fifteenth century. We have named the principal, the fortunate ones; but what becomes of the crowd of other publishers whose hopes vanished before the success of Vostre and Verard? There were Denis Meslier, with his quarto _Heures de Bourges_, and Vincent Commin, bookseller of the Rue Neuve Notre Dame, who thus appealed to his customers:-- "Qui veult en avoir? On en treuve A tres grand marché et bon pris A la Rose, dans la rue Neuve De Nostre-Dame de Paris." [Illustration: Fig. 31.--Plate from a book of hours of Simon Vostre, representing the massacre of the Innocents.] There were also Robin Chaillot, Laurent Philippe, and a hundred others whose names have died with them or are only preserved on the torn pages of their works. [Illustration: Fig. 32.--Dance of Death, said to be by Verard. The Pope and the Emperor.] [Illustration: Fig. 33.--Dance of Death of Guyot Marchant in 1486. The Pope and the Emperor.]