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1803Best.-Nr. 985London: W. Smith and Co. 1803. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good condition. "Descriptions of each plate in French and English with the Scripture Text from which the designs were taken. Printed by W. Smith and Co. King Street Seven Dials for John Scott No. 447 Strand: & Thomas Ostell No. 3 Ave Maria Lane 1803". Engraved frontispiece engraved title engraved portrait of Holbein. All gilt edges full leather cover with embossed design and gilt decoration. Foxing or spotting evident to many pages but is generally light. Note that two editions were printed this same year the other printed by Gosnell. Leather cover shows some slight corner wear cover wear and top of spine heavily worn. This is a very hard to find rare book. W. Smith and Co. hardcover
1780Best.-Nr. 5688Part One: The Dance of Death including 49 engravings on 14 plates of which the final two are folio: "Triumphus divitiarum" & "Triumphus paupertatis" Part Two: The Passion of Christ comprising 13 folio plates including engraved title. Hinges professionally reinforced; chip to head of spine peripheral foxing and thumbing. Chretian de Mechal hardcover
1856Best.-Nr. 17837Paris: Edwin Tross. Very Good. 1856. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Bright clean red cloth binding with gilt decoration & lettering. Text tight & intact: binding solid. Unpaginated. Written in Latin & French. Various scenes illustrating the universality of death no matter one's station in life are engraved in the historiated woodcut borders & letters. Hans Holbein 1497-1543 created his Alphabet of Death at a time when the Latin alphabet did not distinguish between I and J or U and V. The separation into vowels and consonants came after the Renaissance. De Montaiglon's preface notes that Holbein's alphabet has only twenty-four letters. Early owner's bookplate. Toning on endpapers only. Poetry Art; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall . Edwin Tross hardcover
1804Best.-Nr. ABE-8815288054John Harding London 1804 small leather bound volume with engravings by W. Hollar after the work of Hans Holbein boards a bit worn spine worn ffep loose but generally in quite good shape one fold out ills. Danse McCaber missing front edge 30 engravings by W. Hollar from the original painting of Hans Holbeing including Danse of Macaber: In a contemporary English gold-tooled painted calf binding. Wencelas Hollar is viewed a one of the formost engravers of his time late 1600 his copper plates were known to be in use until the mid-1800's. Holbein is regarded as the premier portrait painter of all time and was attached to the court of Henry VIII. of the many copies of the Dance of Death this one is quite scarce There is a copy in the British Library. Hollar's engravings alone are quite collectable.The Dance of Death; painted by H. Holbein and engraved by W. Hollar. With introductory essays by Francis Douce. London: John Harding 1804. pp. 70: plates; Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. John Harding, London hardcover
1935Best.-Nr. 577New York: Murdoch Howell & Barrows 1935. Very Good. Limited Edition of 155 copies with 150 for sale. Very Good condition with slight staining ad fading to cover/spine Murdoch Howell & Barrows
1947Best.-Nr. 027074Laclaustra y Compañia 1947. Soft Cover. Near Fine. One of 80 copies on Liverpool Ledger paper with one original copperplate etched Exodi XIX 93 rectangular and 4 oval illustrations. In publishers good only box. Loose leaves in a softcover protected by a glassine paper dust wrapper Laclaustra y Compañia paperback
1977Best.-Nr. D15624London: Johnson Reprint Company Ltd 1977. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Orig. full cloth portfolio. 8 pp. of text in-4to. and 8 facsimile plates in colour. Portfolio boards slightly bowed and with some light soiling in spots. Institutional bookplate fixed to inside of portfolio. Plates are bright and clean in fine condition and suitable for framing. Johnson Reprint Company Ltd hardcover
1993Best.-Nr. 42267GERSTENBERG 1993. 1. hardcover. GERSTENBERG hardcover
1830Best.-Nr. 14624London: William Pickering 1830 Contemporary straight-grained brown morocco over marbled boards. . Octavo. Woodcut printer's device on title and colophon. Illustrations engraved by John and Mary Byfield. Extremites a bit rubbed extremities of spine darkened. A very good copy. William Pickering, hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. 990602.23Benno Schwabe & Co. Basel 1928. Hardcover. Good. 4to hardcover in slipcase. Spine faintly browned under dj else vg condition in lightly edge-worn otherwise good dj. Slipcase browned moderately scuffed & edge-rubbed otherwise solid though not very attractive. 248 pp. Benno Schwabe & Co., Basel hardcover
2005Best.-Nr. 142818Oceana / Oxford Univ Press 2005. Hardcover. As new clean tight & bright condition. 1047pp. Oceana / Oxford Univ Press hardcover
