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The dance of death : in a series of engravings on wood from designs attributed to Hans Holbein ; with a treatise on the subject
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50 The Dance of Death.

4. " Chorea ab eximio Macabro versibus Alemanicisedita, et a Petro Desrey emendata. Parisiis per magistrumGuidonem Mercatorem pro Godeffrido de Marnef. 1490,"folio. Papiilon thought the cuts were in the manner of theFrench artist Jollat, but without foundation, for they aremuch superior to any work by that artist, and of considerablemerit.

5. "La nouvelle Danse Macabre des hommes dictemiroer salutaire de toutes gens et de touts etats, &c.Paris, Guyot Marchant, 1490," folio.

6. " La Danse Macabre des femmes, toute hystoriee etaugmentee de nouveaulx personnages, &c. Paris, GuyotMarchant, le 2 Mai, 1491," folio. This edition, the secondof the Dance of females, has all the cuts with other additions.The list of the figures is in Peignot, but with some doubtson the accuracy of his description.

7. An edition in the Low German dialect was printed atLubeck, 1496, according to Vonder Hagen in his DeutschenPoesie, p. 459, who likewise mentions a Low German editionin prose, at the beginning of the 15th (he must mean 16th)century. He adds, that he has copied one page with cutsfrom Kindeling's Remains, but he does not say in what work.

8. " La grant Danse Macabre des hommes et des femmeshystoriee et augmentee de beaulx dits en Latin, &c. &c.Le tout compose en ryme Francoise et accompagne defigures. Lyon, le xviii jour de Fevrier, Fan 1499," folio.This is supposed to be the first edition that contains boththe men and the women.

9. There is a very singular work, entitled " Icy est lecompost et kalendrier des Bergeres, &c. Imprime a Parisen lostel de beauregart en la rue Cloppin a lenseigne duroy Prestre Jhan. ou quel lieu sont a vendre, ou au lyondargent en la rue Sainct Jaques." At the end, " Imprimea Paris par Guy Marchant maistre es ars ou lieu susdit.Le xvii iour daoust mil cccciiiixx'xix." This extremely rarevolume is in the British Museum, and is mentioned byDr. Dibdin, in vol. ii. p. 530 of his edition of Ames'stypographical antiquities, and probably nowhere else. Itis embellished with the same fine cuts that relate to thefemales in the edition of the Macaber Dance, Nos. 4 and11. The work begins with the words "Deux jeunes