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

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ERRATA.

Page	7,	line	25,	for Boistuan read Boistuau.
	7,	...	26,	for Prodigeuses read Prodigieuses.
	28,	...	14,	read in Holland, &c.
	32,	...	23,	for Lamorensi read Zamorensi.
	81,	...	4,	for fex read sex.
	88,	...	10,	after difficulty add ?
	89,	...	21,	after works add ”
	180,	...	23,	for Typotia read Typotii.
	197,	...	8,	for Stradamus read Stradanus.

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THE
Dance of Death.

CHAPTER I.

Personification of Death, and other modes of representing it among the Ancients.—Same subject during the Middle Ages.—Erroneous notions respecting Death.—Monumental absurdities.—Allegorical pageant of the Dance of Death represented in early times by living persons in churches and cemeteries.—Some of these dances described.—Not unknown to the Ancients.—Introduction of the infernal, or dance of Macaber.