The Dance of Death; From the Original Designs of Hans Holbein, Illus. With 33 Plates

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1542, 12mo.
" Imagines Mortis." Lugd. 1545, 12mo.
" Imagines Mortis." Lugd. 1547, 12mo.
" Les Images de la Morte." Lyon, 1547, 12mo.
" Simolachri, Historic, e Figure de la Morte." Lyoue, 1549.
12rao. with aa address from the printer, in which he complains of some attempts having been made in other countries to imitate the cuts to his book, and informs the reader that he 20 THE DANCE OF DEATH.
usually denominated by most of the writers upon the arts of painting and engraving, as well as by many
...travellers, Hulhcin's Dance of Death. It is extremely clear, however, that Holbein did not fwre?2/ these subjects, for it appears in a dedication, which is only to be found in the first edition of this work, that the painter was then dead, and that he had not lived to finish some of the de- signs, which, however, afterwards appeared in a subsequent edition. The painter must therefore have died before 1538, and it is well known that Holbein was at this time living, and continued so until 1555, Unluckily no evidence whatever, nor even tradition, has been preserved relating to this great artist, and it is feared that he will ever remain undiscovered.

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