The Dance of Death: Les Simulachres & Historiees Faces de La Mort

Hans Holbein; Hans Lutzelburger; Philip Hofer; Amy Turner Montague
Boston: The Cygnet Press, Privately Printed at The Godine Press, 1974.
First Edition.

19cm x 13cm. [154] pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.

Reproduced from a set of proofs for the Lyon edition of 1538 together with further illustrations from later editions. The main text is produced in Latin, French, and English, with introductory essays by Philip Hofer and Amy Turner Montague in English. Printed in a trade edition of 950 copies, of which 100 are for members of The Cygnet Press, this is number 3 and is intimately inscribed by Philip Hofer to B. and Annette.

Very minor wear and soiling, and minor tanning to jacket. Near Fine Condition.

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