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Vcnize, pais do mi nutivite',” wishes to portray tho present “pourtraielsd’ouvrages magniflques tous differes, & non oneor usitez en cetto cdlree ni aultres,& quo j’ay tonus caches & inedgnus jusques h maintenant,” “ feeling assuredthat if tho first you have seen 1 on engondre" quelque fruit & utillitc, ceuxcy en nporteront d’avantngc,’ and if I see this my invention pleases you, I will1 vaus faire participer d’un anltro seoonde hande d’ouvtages.’ ”

P. 3. Dedication “ A la Royne,” Louise do Vaudemont, by Lo Clero, sayingthat having received from Itnly some rare and singular patterns, and “ ouvragesdo l’ingerio & en ayat invite qtielques uns, selon mon petit 89 avoir, j’ay pemepuis quo cos choses la appartienont prineipallement nux Dames,” that he cannotdo hotter than present them to tho Queon, as if theso patterns aro useful (as hehoars some loss perfect and more rudely sketched have served and profitedbefore), they ought to bo offered to lior Majosty. Signed last day of May 1587.

P. 4. A sonnet

Aux Dames et Damoiselles.

“ L’un sefforce li gaigner le coour des grads seigneursPour possedor onfin uno exquise richesse,

L’uutrc aspire aux Estafs pour monter en altossc,

Et l’autre par la guerro alleche los honneurs.

Quand h moy, seulement pour chassor mes longueurs,

Je roe sen sntisfuit de vivro on petitosso,

Et do fuiro si bicn, qu’aux dames je dclaisseUn gran contontement on mos graves labours.

Prenez doneques en gre (mos Dames), je vous prie,

Ces pourtrais ouvrages lesquelz je vous de'die,

Pour tromper vos ennuis, et I’esprit employer.

En ceste nouveuute', pourres beaucoup apprendre,

Et maistresses en fin on cest couvro vous rendre.

Le travail est plaisant. Si grand est lo loyer.”

“ Morir asaidouumente per virtu,

Non morire.”

Then follow the 30 patterns set oil' in white on a black ground, viz. 20 “ Ou-vrages do point Couppi,” tho first plate with the double AA, according to thefashion introduced by Francis I. of using Greek monograms, standing forQueon Louise. On the second pago aro two escutcheons, one of Franco, theother with the letter H for Henry III. Then follow eight “ Pasaemoiis de pointCouppi/’ which are succeeded by eight more “ Ouvrages de point Couppd.”

Part 2, 24 ff. Same decorated frontispiece and 22 plates of subjects insquares for stitches like the G ermnn patterns of the present day. These consistof the Seven Planets, Sol, Luna, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Vonus, and Saturn.Pour in squares of various designs ; two of Aroorini shooting stags and birds ;Neptune and the winds ; an arabesque with impresa of a column with circleand double triangle ; five borders and squares, and two “ bordures a oarroaux,”diamond-shaped meshes Tho last pago contains tho Extract from thePrivilege.

This is tho original edition of Vinciolo, of which we know hut one copyexisting, that in the Library at Itouen.

It was followed, the same year, by two other editions, with alterations. 09

00 Wo have lately rccoivod notico of there being a copy of tho originaledition ut Turin, in thu Library of the University.