Zénith de Caen

which ranged from tales of chivalry and magic to almanacs and basic manuals, with a strong leavening of saints’ lives and devotional tracts. They were books without authors, the work of men associated with the printing trades at Troyes, Rouen and Caen, the major publishing centres. Although only about fifty new titles were added each year, old texts were regularly revised or updated. Issued in the traditional blue paper cover and printed (and more often reprinted) in editions of 2 to 5 thousand copies