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    The Dance of Death
    The Dance of Death
    The Dance of Death
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    The Dance of Death

    By Jean de Vauzelles, Hans Lützelburger, Gilles Corrozet and

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJun 1, 1971
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    • 3/5
      41 very small woodcuts by Holbein. When will I learn? I expected to see full size artwork - as on the cover - throughout the book. Instead, 2x3" illos more like big postage stamps. And, of course, the text is in medieval French so you know I bought this solely for the artwork. Holbein's a master but break out your magnifying glass for this one. Bummer.
    • 5/5
      Forty woodcuts by Hans Holbein with an introduction by Hans Ganz. Chilling subject matter.

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    The Dance of Death - Jean de Vauzelles

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    Title: The Dance of Death

    Author: Hans Holbein

    Commentator: Austin Dobson

    Release Date: June 10, 2007 [EBook #21790]

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DANCE OF DEATH ***

    Produced by David Garcia, Juliet Sutherland and the Online

    Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

    Of this edition Seven hundred and fifty copies have been printed, of which this is Number …71…

    The

    Dance of Death

    by Hans Holbein, with an

    introductory note by

    Austin Dobson

    New York

    Scott-Thaw Company

    mcmiii

    Copyright, 1903, by

    Scott-Thaw Company

    The Heintzemann Press, Boston

    THE DANCE OF DEATH

    The Book

    "Les Simulachres & Historiées Faces de la Mort avtant elegamtment pourtraictes, que artificiellement imaginées." This may be Englished as follows: The Images and Storied Aspects of Death, as elegantly delineated as [they are] ingeniously imagined. Such is the literal title of the earliest edition of the famous book now familiarly known as "Holbein's Dance of Death." It is a small quarto, bearing on its title-page, below the French words above quoted, a nondescript emblem with the legend Vsus me Genuit, and on an open book, Gnothe seauton. Below this comes again, "A Lyon, Soubz l'escu de Coloigne:

    M. D. XXXVIII

    , while at the end of the volume is the imprint Excvdebant Lvgdvni Melchoir et Gaspar Trechsel fratres: 1538,—the Trechsels being printers of German origin, who had long been established at Lyons. There is a verbose Epistre or Preface in French to the moult reuerende Abbesse du religieux conuent S. Pierre de Lyon, Madame Iehanne de Touszele, otherwise the Abbess of Saint Pierre les Nonnains, a religious house containing many noble and wealthy ladies, and the words, Salut d'un vray Zèle, which conclude the dedicatory heading, are supposed to reveal indirectly the author of the Epistre itself, namely, Jean de Vauzelles, Pastor of St. Romain and Prior of Monrottier, one of three famous literary brothers in the city on the Rhone, whose motto was D'un vray Zelle. After the Preface comes Diuerses Tables de Mort, non painctes, mais extraictes de l'escripture saincte, colorées par Docteurs Ecclesiastiques, & umbragées par Philosophes." Then follow the cuts, forty-one in number, each having its text from the Latin Bible above it, and below, its quatrain in French, this latter being understood to be from the pen of one Gilles Corozet. To the cuts succeed various makeweight Appendices of a didactic and hortatory character, the whole being wound

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