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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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Tfie Dance of Death.

Bergeres seulettes," and appears to have been composedfor females only, differing very materially from the well-known " Kalendrier des Bergers," though including mattercommon to both.

10. " Chorea ab eximio Macabro versibus Alemanicisedita et a Petro Desrey Trecacio quodam oratore nuperemendata. Parisiis per Magistrum Guidonem Mercatorempro Godeffrido Marnef. 15 Octob. 1499," folio, with cuts.

11. "La Danse Macabre, &c. Ant. Verard." No date, butabout 1500, small folio. A vellum copy of this rare editionis described by M. Van Praet in his catalogue of vellumbooks in the royal library at Paris. A copy is in the Archb.Cant, library at Lambeth.

12. " La Danse Macabre, &c. Ant. Verard." No date, butabout 1500, folio. Some variations from No. 9 are pointedout by M. Van Praet. This magnificent volume on vellum,and bound in velvet, came from the library at Blois. It isa very large and thin folio, consisting of three or four leavesonly, printed on pasteboard, with four pages or compart-ments on each leaf. The cuts are illuminated in the usualmanner of Verard's books. In the beginning it is marked"Marolles, No. 1601." It is probably imperfect, the foolnot being among the figures, and all the females are wanting,though, perhaps, not originally in this edition. It is in theroyal library at Paris, where there is another copy of thework printed by Verard, with coloured prints, but differingmaterially from the other in the press-work. It is a common-sized folio, and was purchased at the sale of the CountMacarthy's books. 1

13. "La grant Danse Macabre des hommes et des femmes,&c. Imprimee a Troyes par Nicolas Le Rouge demouranten la grant rue a l'enseigne de Venise aupres la belle croix."No date, folio. With very clever wood-cuts, probably thesame as in the edition of 1490; and if so, they differ muchfrom the manner of Jollat, and have not his well-known mark.

14. "La grant Danse Macabre des hommes et des fem-mes, &c. Rouen, Guillaume de .a Mare." No date, 4to.with cuts, and in the Roman letter.

15. " La grande Danse Macabre des hommes et des femmes,

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