TTie Dance of Death.
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Saltum Mortis. II. Pars. Vana genera Mortis. III. Pars.Pasnas. Damnatorum continens, cum figuris aeneis illus-tratum." Then the same repeated in German, with theaddition "Durch Joannem Weichardum Valvasor. Lib.Bar. cum facultate superiorum, et speciali privilegio Sac.Cses. Majest. Gedruckt zu Laybach, und zu finden beiJohann Baptista Mayr, in Saltzburg. Anno 1682." 4to.Prefixed is an engraved frontispiece representing a ruinedarch, under which is a coffin, and before it the King ofTerrors between two other figures of Death mountedrespectively on an elephant and camel. In the foreground,Adam and Eve, tied to the forbidden tree of knowledge,between several other Deaths variously employed. Twomen digging graves, &c. Underneath, W. inven. W-excud. Jo. Koch del. And. Trost sculp. Wagenpurgi inCarniola." It is the first part only with which we areconcerned. The artist, with very little exception, hasfollowed and reversed the spurious wood-cuts of 1555, by^Sj '. To the groups of boys, he has added a Death
leading them on.
VIII. " De Doodt vermaskert met des werelts ydelheytafghedaen door Geeraerdt Van Wolschaten." This isanother edition of No. IX. of the original wood-cuts,here engraved on copper. The text is the same as that of1654, with the addition of seven leaves, including a cut ofDeath leading all ranks of men. In that of the Pedlar theartist has introduced some figures in the distance of theoriginal soldier. Among other variations the costume ofthe time of William III. is sometimes very ludicrouslyadopted, especially in the frontispiece, where the authoris represented writing at a desk, and near him two figuresof a man in a full bottom wig, and a woman with a maskand a perpendicular cap in several stories, usually called aFontange, both having skeleton faces. At bottom, the mark
£ Jj,f. • This edition was printed at Antwerp by Jan
Baptist Jacobs, without date, but the privilege has that of1698. i2mo.
IX. " Imagines Mortis, or the Dead Dance of HansHolbeyn, painter of King Henry the VIII." This title is
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