dance of death
By: by Hans Holbein, with an introductory note by Austin Dobson.
Contributors: Lützelburger, Hans, 1495?-1526.; Corrozet, Gilles, 1510-1568.; Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921.
Publisher: George Bell and Sons
Published: 1898
Place of publication: London and New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 49
Other titles: Rare Book Collection.
Work titles: Totentanz.
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