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![Description : [RR4 a.] Le premier / volume de orose./ [Ra b.] Cy finist orose / Imprime a Paris ce xxie ior daoust / mil quatre ces quatre vingts Z onze por / Anthoine verard libraire demourat sur / le pont nredame a lymaige saint iehan / leuageliste ou au pallais en la grant sal/le au premier pillier, etc.// [Device.] Illustrations : On title-page, large L from the Mer des Hystoires. Through- out, large number of cuts, repeated, nearly all of which are afterwards used in Verard’s books of chivalry. [Vol. i.] [RR2 a] cut No. io, with border below of angels and shield; [a! a] large P; [a4 b] large S; [a3 a] large I; [a3 b~\ a cut from the Horcs (reproduced by Monceaux, i. 212); [a8 a] No. 6; on [b4 a] No. 9; [c6 a] No. 7 j [o6 a] No. 13 ; on [s2 a] No. 15; on [s8 a] No. 12; on [t2 a] No. 16; on [t4 a~\ No. 14. Besides the large initials above mentioned, there are a few of medium size. All these occur in the Lucain of 1490 (No. 12). Type: No. 3. Copies known: Bib. Nat.* (Res. G. 181, and Vel. 682-3), Gen., Ars., Boulogne, Cambrai. 17. La Somme rurale. [By Jean Boutillier.] 1491. fol. Collation: 272 leaves numbered, except the index ; sig. aa8, bb4, a-y8, z6, A-Hs, I6, K4, AA4; printed in double columns, 44 lines to a full column. Description : [aa4 a.] La Somme rurale. [K4 bl\ Cy fine la somme rural compilee / par Iehan boutillier conseiller du / roy a paris Et imprime audit lieu / lan mil .CCCC. iiii .xx. et xi. // [AA4 bl\ Cy fine la table du second / liure. / [Device.] Copy known : Catalogue A. Claudin, Aug.-Sept., 1897, No. 73271. R£s. F. 1248* at the Bibliotheque Nationale appears to be an imperfedf copy of this edition, but it wants the last four leaves. Type : No. 1. Illustrations : None. 18. Art de bien mourir. Aiguillon de crainte divine [= Traite des peines d’enfer, etc.] Avenement de l’Antechrist. Quinze signes. 1492. fol. Collation : 200 unnumbered leaves, sig. a-h8, i6 r(the last blank), k8, 110, m8, n-°e> Pte q-r6> AA-DD8, EE6, FF-HH8, II10. Printed in double columns, 33 lines to a full column. Description: [a4 a.] Le Liure intitule/ lart de bien mourir.// [(^ bJ\ [Device of Pierre Lerouge.] Finist le liure Ititule lart de bie/mourir Iprime p pierre le rouge /lprimer du roy por athoine verard.// [d4 a.] Leguyllon](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28040181_0050.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
