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ment at the number and magnitude of his lite- rary achievements, must he proportionahly in- creased. Maittaire considers, that both Robert and Henry united in their own persons two

Siualities rarely to be found in typographers, (at east of after times,) fidelity and erudition. They evinced equal skill and zeal in the pro- fession. At length, constantly possessed with an attachment to his native count^, he repaired to Lyons; where he died, as above stated.

Almeloveen* had been informed, that the remains of Henry were interred in the cemetery of the chapel of St. Benedict, at Paris; and that some sepulchral memorial of him was to be seen there. But Maittaire believes that Lyons, the place of his decease, was also that of his sepulture.

Joannes Posthius, a physician of Wurtzburg, composed the following eulogv to his memory; whicn seems to partake as much of the ludicrous, as of the serious; but such as it is, it is given :

ToOaome, the Io(» frmnctat Tdnme to Indite I And tedlone, tbronsh the ines, to brinr to light I Ceeeelen thy labonn were In each vocation, Hbmbv I O man of wondrona appUcBtfam.

The concluding lines of a monody composed by Paul Stenhens, on the death of his father, might fumisn a more appropriate inscription to his memory :

FAUNn nvLciaaiHO, ac rim umuo»iM

HENRICO 8TEPRAN0,

r. STirBANUs MOMTm roauiT.

Te aacred barda, theoffierlnKaaongcan ahedi Bring TB, If plaints are gratefia to the dead. Not Hbnbt, dying, Onnda law nnmored. Nor felt ahe not the panga of him bdored : Nor did the Latian muaea check the tear Of sonow, that bedewed their votary's Uer. His pralae, at least, though Olial eflbtts ttO, To apeak ahall atodiooa nlghta and daya avail. And land the man by toQsome vigils spent, 0*er his cold grave a deathleaa monument.

Henry Stephens adopted the mark or tymbo- lum typographicum, which was used by his fiuher, namely, the olive, with the inscription. Noli altum sapere, and occasionally perhaps, with the additionaj words, ted time. In his Homer of 1588, he exhibits, instead of the cus- tomary device, a cipher, or Maittaire terms it, " nota compendiaria tui nominit ,-" which is also a£Sxed to the end of the fourth volume of his Theuturut Lingua Graae.

The fullest list of publications executed by the illustrious family of the Stephenses, is by Michael Maittaire, Stephanorwn Ilittoria, tita* ipionim, ac librot complecetem. 8vo. Londini, I709.t This esteemed work is now rare : at the end of the second part ought to be found an Appendix of four leaves. This was the first

• TheodOTl Jansaen ab Almeloveen de Vitls STsrsAiro- bvh, celebrinm typographonim, Disseitatlo Epistolica; In qos de Stephanomm atlrpe, iiidefesala laboribna, vaila lortnna, atqae libris, qnoa orbi endito eorundem OBclna emendatlaslnue impreasoa nnqnam exhttraeniBt, anbjecto iUomm indice, agitnr. Kt Amatd. lOSS, svo.

t "ntmmnu Ormem Umgum. London : ISIS-SS, folio. 39 parte, pabliahed at 3} gniseas, large paper published at 78 guineas.

specimen of Maitture's great skill in typographi- «d antiquities. The life of Robert Stephens, in Latin, revised and corrected by the author, with a new and complete list of his works, is prefixed to the improved edition of R. Stephens's 77^- taunu, 1734, 4 vols, folio {Lit. An. of xviii. Cent. vol. iv. p. 660.)

The reader is also referred to a View of the early Paririan Greek Preu. By the Rev. W. P. Greswell, 2 vols. Svo. 1833, for which the compiler is partly indebted for the above sketch.

Mr. Pettigrew (Bihliotheca Suuexiana, vol. i. part ii, page 390) has said, that " the Stephenses printed no less than forty-five different editions of the bible in various languages, and at a time when great persecutions were raised against those who professed to give publicity to the genuine holy scriptures."

1699. Jacobus Stoer, a printer of Geneva, fre- quently omitted the name of the town where he residea. He printed the Emblemata cum figuris, a work which Henry Stephens had left unfinished at his death.

1699. The first authorised version of the Ca- tholic Bible in Poland, was printed at Cracow, by Andrew Petricovius, in folio, under the aus- pices of Stanislaus Kamkowski, archbishop of Gnezn. This translation was made from the Latin Vulgate, and had been determined upon, and ordered to be made by pope Gregory XIII. and the publication was subsequently approved by pope Clement VIII. Jacob Wuyck was the translator. He was a native of Poland, born of honest pious parents, and from childhood in- clined to study. In July, 1671, he took the oaths of the order of the Jesuits. After filling several high religious and literary offices in Transylvania and Poland, be expired at Cracow, July 27, 1597, in the fifty -seventh year of his a^, amid the sighs and tears of the brethren of his order.

1599. In this year the hall of the Stationers' company underwent as great a purgation as was carried on in Don Quixote's library. Mars- ton's Pygmalion, Marlowe's Ovtd, The Satire! of Hall and Marston, the Epigram* of Davis, the Shawdowe of Truthe, in epigrams and satires. Snarling Satyrei, The Booke againtt Women, The xv. ioyet of Marriage, and the Caltha Paetarum, were ordered for immediate conflagration, by the prelates Wbitgift and Ban- croft. By the same authority all the books of Nash and Gabriel Harvey were anathematised; and like thieves and outlaws were ordered to be taken whereioever they maye be found. It was decreed that no satires or epigrams should be printed for the future. No plavs were to be printed without the inspection ana permisdon of the archbishop of Canterbury and the bishop of London; nor any Englithe Hittoryet, novels, and romances, without the permission of the privy council. Any pieces of this nature unlicensed, or now at large and wandering abroad, were to be diligently sought, recalled, and delivered over to the ecclesiastical arm at London House. — Warton.

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