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 well-known subjects of Death and the old man with the bundle of sticks, &c. and Cupid and Death in many editions of Æsopian fables.

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CHAPTER XIII.

Books of emblems and fables.—Frontispieces and title-pages, in some degree connected with the Dance of Death.

EMBLEMS AND FABLES.

t is very seldom that in this numerous and amusing class of books a subject relating to Death, either moral or of a ludicrous nature does not occur. It may be sufficient to notice a few of them.

“La Morosophie de Guillaume de la Perriere,” 1553, 12mo.

“Emblemes ou devises Chretiennes,” par Georgette de Montenaye, 1571, 4to.