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books published at Lyons, it is very clear that there werepersons in that city capable of the task. Holbein had beendead eight years, after a long residence in London.

Du Verdier, in his Bibliotheque Francoise, mentions thisedition, and adds that it was translated from the Frenchinto Latin, Italian, Spanish, German, and English \ x astatement that stands greatly in need of confirmation asto the last three languages, but this writer, on too manyoccasions, deserves but small compliment for his accuracy.

X. " Imagines Mortis : item epigrammata e Gall, a G.iEmilio in Latinum versa. Lugdun. Frellonius, 1574."

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XI. In 1654 a Dutch work appeared with the followingtitle, "De Doodt vermaskert met swerelts ydelheyt afghedaendoor G. V. Wolsschaten, verciert met de constighe Beldenvanden maerden Schilder Hans Holbein." i.e. "Deathmasked, with the world's vanity, by G. V. AVolsschaten,ornamented with the ingenious images of the famouspainter Hans Holbein. T'Antwerpen, by Petrus Bellerus."This is on an engraved frontispiece of a tablet, over whichare spread a man's head and the skin of two arms supportedby two Deaths blowing trumpets. Below, a spade, a pil-grim's staff, a sceptre, and a crosier, with a label, on whichis " sceptra ligonibus sequat." Then follows another title-page, with the same words, and the addition of GeeraerdtVan Wolsschaten's designation, " Prevost van sijne coninck-lijcke Majesteyts Munten des Heertoogdoms van Brabant,&c. mdcliv." i2mo. The author of the text, which ismixed up with poetry and historical matter, was prefect ofthe mint in the Duchy of Brabant. 3 This edition containseighteen cuts, among which the following subjects are fromthe original blocks: 1. Three boys. 2. The marriedcouple. 3. The pedlar. 4. The shipwreck. 5. Thebeggar. 6. The corrupt judge. 7. The astrologer. 8.The old man. 9. The physician. 10. The priest with theeucharist. 11. The monk. 12. The abbess. 13. The

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1 Edit. Javigny, iv. 559. 2 This edition is given on the authorityof Peignot, p. 62, but has not been seen by the author of this work.In the year 1547, there were three editions, and it is not improbablethat, by the transposition of the last two figures, one of these mighthave been intended. 3 Foppen's Biblioth. Belgica, i. 363.