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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 at Basil. To which is prefixed, descriptions of each plate in French and English, with the Scripture text from which the designs were taken.

Accession number
PML 196815
Published
Edinburgh, 1788.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2017.
Notes
The descriptions of the plates are by Mechel. cf. Dance of death. The dance of death, with a dissertation ... 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.
Includes an engraving after Holbein's design for a dagger sheath with the dance of death.
Edited by James Bonar. cf. Brit. Mus. Cat.
Description
3 preliminary leaves, 46 pages : frontispiece (portrait), 49 plates ; 19 x 16 cm
Provenance
Unidentified inscription, abraded, June 14th, 1793; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Justin Croft Antiquarian Books on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, May 2017.
Binding
18th-century sprinkled calf over paper boards (19 x 16 cm.); rebacked. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Classification
Department