An edition of Totentanz (1547)

The dance of death

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The dance of death
Hans Holbein
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English
Pages
49

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Edition Notes

Contains reproduction of original t.-p.: Les simulachres & historiées faces de la mort, avtant elegammët pourtraictes, que artificiellement imaginées. A Lyon, Soubz l'escu de Coloigne. M.D.XXXVIII.

Copies of 41 woodcuts supposed to have been executed from Holbein's designs by Hans Lützelburger and first published Lyons, 1538. Accompanying each cut is a related passage of Scripture in Latin, with a quatrain giving its equivalent rendering in French, probably by Gilles Corrozet.

"Chiswick Press:--C. Whittingham and Co. Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London"--T.p. verso, repeated in colophon with printer's device.

BM, vol. 48, col. 173

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London and New York
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Rare Book Collection.

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41 p., 49 plates
Number of pages
49

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OL13532060M
OCLC/WorldCat
20143790

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