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TODTENTANZ DER STADT BASEL

Felix Schneider, Basel, 1875

Sm. 8vo., publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards printed in black and red. In the original yellow dust wrapper.Occasional marginal foxing. One in a long tradition of tri-lingual Dances of Death, the wood-engraved illustrations for which are based on the famous Basel Church wall paintings which come down to us from the engravings of Holbein via Matthias Merian, whose Todentanz was first published in Frankfurt in 1649. The text that accompanies the engravings consists of a dialogue between Death and the "candidate," all going to prove that no one escapes his fate, from the Pope and the Emperor on down to the humblest man. An attractive edition, particularly so because of the CAREFUL HAND COLORING.

HAND COLORED PLATES—TRI-LINGUAL TEXT