The Dance of Death / Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein

by Francis Douce

THE DANCE OF DEATH.

The Dance of Death

EXHIBITED IN ELEGANT ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD

WITH A DISSERTATION

ON THE SEVERAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THAT SUBJECT

BUT MORE PARTICULARLY ON THOSE ASCRIBED TO

Macaber and Hans Holbein

BY FRANCIS DOUCE ESQ. F. A. S.
AND A MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF NORMANDY AND OF THE
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ETC. AT CAEN

Pallida mors æquo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres. HORAT. lib. i. od. 4.