CHAPTER IV.

1600 TO 1700 151

Tendencies of the regency of Marie de Medicis--Thomas de Leu and Leonard Gaultier--J. Picart and Claude Mellan--Lyons and J. de Fornazeris--The Book at the beginning of the seventeenth century in Germany, Italy, and Holland--Crispin Pass in France--The Elzevirs and their work in Holland--Sebastian Cramoisy and the Imprimerie Royale--Illustration with Callot, Della Bella, and Abraham Bosse--The publishers and the Hotel de Rambouillet--The reign of Louis XIV.; Antoine Vitré syndic at his accession--His works and mortifications; the Polyglot Bible of Le Jay--Art and illustrators of the grand century--Sébastien Leclerc, Lepautre, and Chauveau--Leclerc preparing the illustration and decoration of the Book for the eighteenth century--The Book in England in the seventeenth century.