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Rh death his library comprised some eight thousand volumes admirably bound in calf, vellum, and green, orange and red morocco, stamped with the various escutcheons described by Ap. Briquet in the “Bulletin du Bibliophile” of 1860, and by Joannis Guigard in the “Armorial du Bibliophile.”

To De Thou’s folio copy of the “Historia Piscium” of Salvianus, purchased at the Edwards sale for the Fonthill collection, has been accorded the palm of superior merit of all books of that age now extant. De Thou’s binders had profited by the example of Grolier’s, and in their hands the art of binding in morocco seemed to have attained perfection.