The English dance of death
Subtitle: from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson, with metrical illustrations, by the author of "Doctor Syntax."
Contributors: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, illustrator; Diggens, John, -1833, printer; Riviere & Son; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Printed by J. Diggens
Published: 1815
Place of publication: London; Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Dance of death in art; Dance of death in literature; English poetry; Artists' illustrated books
Notes: First edition. Hamilton, Doctor Syntax, p. 307.

Added title page, and all other plates are engraved aquatints, hand-colored.

Originally published in 24 monthly parts, 1814-1816.

Signatures: v.1: a⁴ A-2O⁴ chi²; v.2: pi1 A-2P⁴.

Rare Book copy: Index bound after p. vii in v.1 and after title page in v.2.

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy: From the library of Nathan Gallizier, with his bookplate.

Rare Book copy: Bound in full red goatskin, with gilt fillet frame on upper and lower covers; spine with five raised bands, gilt in compartments with a floral design; board edges gilt with double-line fillet; turn-ins gilt with decorative rolls and fillet lines; blue coated endpapers; "Bound by Riviere & Son" in gilt at tail end of upper turn-in.