CHAPTER XII.

Books in which the subjectas occasionally introduced.

O offer anything in the shape of a per-fect list of these, would be to attemptan impossibility, and therefore such onlyas have come under the author's imme-diate inspection are here presented tothe curious reader. The same remarkwill apply to the list of single prints thatfollows.

There is a very singular book, printed, as supposed,about 1460, at Bamberg, by Albert Pfister. It is in Ger-man, and a sort of moral allegory in the shape of com-plaints against Death, with his answers to these accusations.It is very particularly described from the only known per-fect copy in the royal library at Paris, by M. Camus, in vol.ii. of " Memoires de i'lnstitut. nationale des sciences, etc. :Ktterature et beaux arts," p. 6 et seq. It contains five en-gravings on wood, the first of which represents Deathseated on a throne. Before him stands a man with aninfant to complain that Death has taken the mother, whois seen wrapped in a shroud upon a tomb. The secondcut represents Death also on a throne with the same