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The Dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited: in forty-six copper-plates / done from the original designs, which were cut in wood, and afterwards painted, by John Holbein, in the town-house of Basil. To which are prefixed, descriptions of each plate in French and English, with the Scripture text from which the designs were taken. Etched by D. Deuchar, F. A. S.

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.
Description
[6], 47, [1] p., [2], XLVI, [1] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 21 cm
Binding
Red morocco.
Classification
Department