The Dance of Death
By: by Hans Holbein the Younger. A complete facsim. of the original 1538 ed. of Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort. With a new introd. by Werner L. Gundersheimer.
Contributors: Lützelburger, Hans, 1495?-1526.; Corrozet, Gilles, 1510-1568.; Vauzelles, Jean de.
Series: Rosenwald Collection reprint series
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Other titles: Dance of Death.; Simulachres & historiees faces de la mort.; Simulachres et historiees faces de la mort.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
French, Latin, and English.
The woodcuts are supposed to have been executed from Hans Holbein's designs by Hans Lützelburger. The French text has been ascribed to Jean de Vauzelles or to Gilles Corrozet. Cf. Harvard Univ. Library, Dept. of Graphic Arts. Catalogue of books and manuscripts, pt. 1, v. 1, 1964.
Dover ed. includes English translations of the biblical quotations and French quatrains.