Emblems of Mortality; representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, death seizing all ranks and degrees of people

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REPRESENTING, IN UPWARDS OF FIFTY CUTS, DEATH SEIZING ALL RANKS AND DEGREES OF PEOPLE;
Imitated from a Painting in the Cemetery of the Dominican Church at Basil, in Switzerland :
With an Apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French.
Intended as well for the Information of the Curious, as the Instruction and Entertainment of Youth.
TO WHICH IS PREFIXED
A copious Preface, containing an historical Account of the above, and other Paintings on this Subject, now or lately existing in divers Parts of Europe.
LONDON: Printed for T. Hodgson, in George’s-Court, St. John’s-Lane, Clerkenwell. M DCC LXXXIX.

The Work here presented to the Reader is a Copy, with a small Variation noticed hereafter, as to the Cuts, and a Translation, as to the Letter Press, of one well known to the Curious by the Title of Imagines Mortis, or The Images of Death ; which is reported to be in reality indebted for its Existence to an Event that Boccace did but feign as the Occasion of writing his Decameron ; I mean the Calamity of a Plague: And its History is as follows.