The Dance of Death, Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood, With a Dissertation on the Several Representatives of that Subject but more Particularly on those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein
Author(s):
Douce, Francis
| Binding: | Hardcover |
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| Size: | 6 - 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall |
| Volume Condition: | Very Good |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher Name: | William Pickering |
| Publication Year: | 1833 |
| Publication Place: | London |
| SKU: | 002427 |
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| Categories: | Culture and Society , Rare and Antiquarian Books |
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xii, 262, 98, xii. Quarter bound, dark brown morocco over card boards (boards rubbed at edges; rounded, scuffed at corners, some light scuffing and fading). In original binding but endpapers have been replaced. A few notes on fly leaf, in 19th copperplate hand. Tissue-guarded frontispiece (small nick in tissue). Complete with all called for Bonner engravings of Hans Holbein's 'Dance with Death' series. An important and hard to find volume, one of the most detailed studies and interpretations of death in all his guises.
Keywords:
Death
Dance with Death
Holbein
Bonner
