Des Kaysers Abschied
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 49219
Publisher: Printed by the Ephrata Community?
Published: 1745
Place of publication: [Ephrata, Pa.?
Language: ger
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Joseph -- I, -- Holy Roman Emperor, -- 1678-1711; Dance of death; Death -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry
Notes: Dialogue, in verse of nine numbered stanzas, between Death and the Emperor (evidently Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I). For a discussion of this broadside see Breitenbach, Edgar. Des Kaysers Abschied and the first dance of death in America, Quarterly of the Pennsylvania German Society, v. 12, no. 1, Jan. 1978, p. 4-9

Imprint suggested by Breitenbach

Text in two columns; tailpieces (Reilly 156) at the foot of each column; printed area measures 27.2 x 15.9 cm

Not in Evans or Bristol

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 49219)