104 The Dance of Death.

mentioned several other engravings by him, omitting, how-ever, the present, which, it is to be observed, sometimesvary in design from the originals.

VII. " Imagines Mortis illustratae epigrammatis Georgii^Emylii theol. doctoris. Fraxineus ^Emylio Suo. Criminisut poenam mortem mors sustulit una : sic te immortalemmortis imago facit." With a cut of Death and the oldman. This is the middle part only of a work, entitled" Libellus Davidis Chytrsei de morte et vita aeterna. Editiopostrema ; cui additae sunt imagines mortis, illustrata Epi-grammatis D. Georgio yEmylio, Witebergse. Impressus aMatthaeo Welack, anno mdxc." i2mo. The cuts, fifty-threein number, are, on the whole, tolerably faithful, but coarselyengraved. In the subject of the Pope the two Devils areomitted, and, in that of the Counsellor, the Demon blowingwith a bellows into his ear is also wanting. Some have the

mark »-{-t, and one that of \)^*, with a knife or graving tool.

VIII. " Todtentanz durcn alle stendt der menschen,&c. furgebildet mit figuren. S. Gallen, 1581." 4to. SeeJanssen, "Essai sur l'origine de la gravure," i. 122, whoseems to make them copies of the originals.

IX. The last article in this list of the old copies, thoughprior in date to some of the preceding, is placed here asdiffering materially from them with respect to size. It is asmall folio, with the following title, " Todtentantz,

Das menschlichs leben anders nicht

Dann nur ain lauff zum TodUnd Got ain nach seim glauben richt

Dess findstu klaren tschaidO Mensch hierinn mit andacht lisz

Und fassz zu hertzen dasSo wirdsttu Ewigs hayls gewisz

Kanst sterben dester bas.

MDXLIIII.

Desine longsevos exposcere seduhts annos

Inque bonis multos annumerare diesAtque hodie, fatale velit si rumpere filum

Atropos, impavido pectore disce mori."

At the end, " Gedruckt inn der kaiserlichen ReychstattAugspurg durch Jobst Denecker Formschneyder." Thisedition is not only valuable for its extreme rarity, but for