Accession number
PML 2118
Published
London : Printed by W. Smith & Co., ... for J. Scott, ... and Thomas Ostell, 1803.
Notes
The dance of death, with a dissertion on the several representations of that subject, by Francis Douce, 1833, p. 136.
Added t.-p., engraved: Le triomphe de la mort, gravé d'aprés les dessins originaux de Jean Holbein, par David Deuchar, 1786.
Engr'd front. with Deuchar's por.; Eng'd. front. taken from Mechel, with Deuchar's ... them after Hellar's copies, signed ... fecit; ... pp. of text giving the "explications" of Mechel ... English translations, The frontispiece is described as Plate 1, and no notice is taken of the ... plate 1, Birth of Eve, which follows the preface, The so-called "Little dance of death" is inserted.
The descriptions of the plates are by Mechel. cf. Dance of death.
Added t.-p., engraved: Le triomphe de la mort, gravé d'aprés les dessins originaux de Jean Holbein, par David Deuchar, 1786.
Engr'd front. with Deuchar's por.; Eng'd. front. taken from Mechel, with Deuchar's ... them after Hellar's copies, signed ... fecit; ... pp. of text giving the "explications" of Mechel ... English translations, The frontispiece is described as Plate 1, and no notice is taken of the ... plate 1, Birth of Eve, which follows the preface, The so-called "Little dance of death" is inserted.
The descriptions of the plates are by Mechel. cf. Dance of death.
Description
[6], 47, [1] p., [2], XLVI, [1] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 21 cm
Binding
Red morocco.
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