1 This base would, however, have inspired more confidence if Saunders had consulted the National Union Catalogue of Pre-1956 Imprints with greater care. Had she done so, she would, for example, have discovered that the 1546 de Tournes edition of La Perriere's Theatre des bons engins, whose existence she questions in her table facing page 294, does indeed exist (there is a beautiful copy in the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress).

2 Any reference to that cultural context is usually parenthetic and without commentary as when Saunders notes in passing that emblem 77 (actually 75 in both 1539 editions) of La Perriere's Theatre contains a “clear reference to the hanging of Samblanjay in 1527“ (p. 210). Not only does this remark add little to the argument being developed, but it is no more convincing here than it was when Greta Dexter first made the claim in the introduction to her edition of the Theatre (Gainesville, Fla., 1964).