- DU TILLET (Jean). Recueil des Roys de France, leurs couronne et maison, ensemble, le rengs [sic] des grands de France (...). Plus an abbreviated chronicle containing everything that happened, both in war and otherwise, between the Kings & Princes, Republics & foreign Potentates: by M. I. Du Tillet, bishop of Meaux brothers. À Paris, chez Jacques Du Puys, 1580, small folio, [6] ff. non chiff. (title with large bookseller's vignette, privilege, dedication, to the reader), 471-[1] pp., [13] ff. non chiff. (table of contents), [109] misf. 113 [Chronique abrégée des Rois], 46 royal figures (treated in majesty in a cartouche) and 23 coats of arms in the text, brown calf, spine ribbed, gilt fleurons, title-piece, triple fillet framing the boards, gilt roulette on the edges, red tr. (nerves and spines a little rubbed, some defects in the volume) First edition of the first part (a second part will appear in 1588). This collection of the Du Tillet brothers is important both from the point of view of the origin of the kings of France and those of the nobility and for French dynastic symbolism. It was by the commission of 21 Dec. 1548 that King Henry II asked Jean Du Tillet to note on the registers of the Parliament of Paris, of which he was secretary and civil clerk, the regulations, statutes, orders relating to the ranks, precedence and orders held by the princes, the officers of the crown and other great lords of the kingdom. Saffroy, I, 10253.