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than outlines ; and, allowing for the time, 
they fufliciently well exprefs the habit of 
moft of the fubjedrs. 
Egenolfhiv mg fet the example, printers, 
after this time, themfelves bore the expence 
of catting the blocks ; by which means, 
certain printers monopolifed the printing of 
Herbals ; and a kind of commerce between 
them and authors took place, and mutual 
exchano-es were made for the ufe of each 
other's books. Among thefe, no one pof- 
feffed at lenoth a ^rreater colledtion than 
the famous Plantin, of Antwerp -y who 
recommended himfelf fo highly by the 
excellency of his types, and mode of exe- 
cuting his works. Hence he became the 
common printer to feveral of , the celebrated 
botanic writers of the iixteenth centurv. 
When Clusius publifhed his French tranf- 
lation of DoDOENS, with Loey at Antwe^^p^ 
he gave figures copied from Fuchsius ^ 
all w^hich Flantin bought. He afterwards 
acquired the figures cut forCLusius's own 
works, and thofe of LoBEL. Dodon^us, 
befidesfome new blocks, had the ufe ofali the 
above in the Pemptades,'' in i 584, which 
work contains 1300 figures. Tabern^- 
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