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 HolbeinDouce, Francis
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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
Douce, Francis
Bible. Old Testament -- Illustrations; Dance of death
16. "La grant Danse Macabre des hommes et des femmes, &c. Lyon, Nourry,
1501," 4to. cuts.
17. "La grant Danse Macabre des hommes et des femmes, &c. Imprimé à
Genesve, 1503," 4to. cuts.
18. "La grant Danse Macabre, &c. Paris, Nicole de la Barre, 1523," 4to.
with very indifferent cuts, and the omission of some of the characters in
preceding editions. This has been privately reprinted, 1820, by Mr.
Dobree, from a copy in the British Museum.
19. "La grant Danse Macabre des hommes et des femmes. Troyes, Le Rouge,
1531," folio, cuts.
20. "La grand Danse Macabre des hommes et des femmes. Paris, Denys Janot.
1533," 8vo. cuts.
21. "La grand Danse Macabre des hommes et des femmes, tant en Latin qu'en
Francoys. Paris, par Estienne Groulleau libraire juré en la rue neuve
Nostre Dame à l'enseigne S. Jean Baptiste." No date, 16mo. cuts. The first
edition of this size, and differing in some respects from the preceding.
22. "La grand Danse Macabre des hommes et des femmes, &c. Paris, Estienne
Groulleau, 1550," 16mo. cuts.
23. "La grande Danse des Morts, &c. Rouen, Morron." No date, 8vo. cuts.
24. "Les lxviii huictains ci-devant appellés la Danse Machabrey, par
lesquels les Chrestiens de tous estats tout stimulés et invités de penser
à la mort. Paris, Jacques Varangue, 1589," 8vo. In Roman letter, without
cuts.
25. "La grande Danse Macabre des hommes et des femmes, &c. Troyes, Oudot,"
1641, 4to. cuts. One of the bibliothèque bleue books.
26. "La grande Danse Macabre des hommes et des femmes, renouvellée de
vieux Gaulois en langage le plus poli de notre temps, &c. Troyes, Pierre
Garnier rue du Temple." No date, but the privilege is in 1728, 4to. cuts.
The _polished_ language is, of course, for the worse, and Macaber is
called "des Machabées," no doubt, the editor's improvement.
27. "La grande Danse _Macabre_ des hommes et des femmes, renouvellée, &c.
Troyes, chez la veuve Oudot, et Jean Oudot fils, rue du Temple, 1729,"
4to. cuts. Nearly the same as No. 25.
These inferior editions continued, till very lately, to be occasionally
reprinted for the use of the common people, and at the trifling expense of
a very few sous. They are, nevertheless, of some value to those who feel
interested in the subject, as containing tolerable copies of all the fine
cuts in the preceding edition, No. 11.
Dr. Dibdin saw in the public library at Munich a very old series of a
Macaber Dance, that had been inserted, by way of illustration, into a
German manuscript of the Dance of Death. Of these he has given two
subjects in his "Bibliographical Tour," vol. iii. p. 278.
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