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the Husbandman, the Musicians (in two compartments),the Shepheard, the Foole, the Beggar, the Roge, of Youth,of Infancie." Then the females :—" The Empresse, theQueene, the Princes, the Duchesse, the Countesse, theVicountesse, the Baronnesse, the Lady, the Judge's Wife,the Lawyer's Wife, the Gentlewoman, the Alderman's Wife,the Marchantes Wife, the Citizen's Wife, the Rich Man'sWife, the Young Woman, the Mayde, the Damosell, theFarmar's Wife, the Husbandman's Wife, the Countriwoman,the Nurse, the Shepheard's Wife, the Aged Woman, theCreeple, the Poore Woman, the Infant, the (female) Foole."All these are designed in a masterly manner, and delicatelyengraved. The figures of the Deaths occasionally aboundin much humour, and always with appropriate characters.The names of the unknown artists were worthy of beingrecorded.

III. " Icones mortis, sexaginta imaginibus totidemque in-scriptionibus insignitae, versibus quoque Latinis et novis Ger-manicis illustratae. Norimbergag Christ. Lockner, 1648." 8vo. 2

IV. " Rudolph Meyers S : Todten dantz ergantzet undheraus gegeben durch Conrad Meyern Maaler in Zurich,im jahr 1650." On an engraved title-page, representingan angel blowing a trumpet, with a motto from theApocalypse, Death or Time holds a lettered label withthe above inscription or title. In the background groupsof small figures allusive to the last judgment. Thenfollows a printed title:—"Sterbenspiegel, das ist sonnenklareVorstellung menschlicher Nichtigkeit durch alle Stand undGeschlechter: vermittlest 60 dienstlicher kupferblatterenlehrreicher uberschrifTten und beweglicher zu vier stimmenauszgesetzter Todtengesangen, vor disem angefangen durchRudolffen Meyern S. von Zurich, &c. Jetzaber zu erwekungnothwendiger Todsbetrachtung, verachtung irdischer eytel-keit, und beliebung seliger ewigkeit, zu end gebracht undverlegt durch Conrad Meyern Maaler in Zurich unddaselbsten bey ihme zu finden. Getruckt zu Zurich beyJohann Jacob Bodmer, mdcl." 4to. That is :—The Mirrorof Death, that is, a brilliant representation of humannothingness in all ranks and conditions, by means of 60appropriate copper-plates, spiritual superscriptions, and

2 Catal. de la bibliothequs du Roi, ii. 153.