Accession number
PML 2112
Creator
Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543.
Published
A Lyon : Soubz l'escu de Coloigne [Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel], M.D.XXXVIII [1538]
Credit line
Purchased with the De Forest collection, 1899. NPM
Notes
1st ed. of Holbein's Dance of death, with 41 woodcuts after his designs, engraved by Hanns Lutzelburger.
Nicolas Bourbon (1503-1550) is considered author of the French text of Les simulacres.
Signatures: A-M⁴.
Collation: title, A¹; dedication, A²-⁴; diverses tables de mort, B¹-⁴; 41 cuts with Latin title at head and 4 lines of verse in French, at foot; B⁴v-G⁴; 4 explanatory tracts, H-M⁴.
Printers' mark on t.p.; colophon in cartouche on p. [104].
Colophon: Excudebant Lugduni Melchior et Gaspar Trechsel fratres. 1538.
The address in the imprint is that of publishers J. & F. Frellon.
Pages [16-56] are woodcuts by Holbein with Latin captions & French quatrains ascribed to Jean de Vauzelles or Gilles Corrozet; the cut on p. [51] is signed by the block cutter, Hans Lützelburger.
Nicolas Bourbon (1503-1550) is considered author of the French text of Les simulacres.
Signatures: A-M⁴.
Collation: title, A¹; dedication, A²-⁴; diverses tables de mort, B¹-⁴; 41 cuts with Latin title at head and 4 lines of verse in French, at foot; B⁴v-G⁴; 4 explanatory tracts, H-M⁴.
Printers' mark on t.p.; colophon in cartouche on p. [104].
Colophon: Excudebant Lugduni Melchior et Gaspar Trechsel fratres. 1538.
The address in the imprint is that of publishers J. & F. Frellon.
Pages [16-56] are woodcuts by Holbein with Latin captions & French quatrains ascribed to Jean de Vauzelles or Gilles Corrozet; the cut on p. [51] is signed by the block cutter, Hans Lützelburger.
Description
[104] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 18 cm
Provenance
De Forest collection; from the collections of J.A. de Thou, (autograph on t.p.) and La Roche Lacarelle (bookplate).
Binding
Half brown morocco by MacDonald.
Classification
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Department