Emblems of mortality
Subtitle: representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, Death seizing all ranks and degrees of people : imitated from a painting in the cemetery of the Dominican church at Basil, in Switzerland : with an apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French, intended as well for the information of the curious, as the instruction and entertainment of youth : to which is prefixed a copious preface, containing an historical account of the above, and other paintings on this subject, now or lately existing in divers parts of Europe
By: [Edited, with preface by John S. Hawkins]
Contributors: Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543; Royal College of Physicians of London
Publisher: [Printed for T. Hodgson, in George's-Court, St. John's-Lane, Clerkenwell]
Published: 1789
Place of publication: London
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: Dance of Death; Medicine and Art
Notes: [Engraved by J. Bewick, after Holbein's designs and the verses translated from the Latin edition of 1547]

Two copies.

Minns 242.

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