DANCE OF DEATH -- [William COMBE (1741-1823)]. The English Dance of Death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson. London: J.Diggens for R.Ackermann, 1815-1816. 2 volumes, 8° (235 x 145mm). Letterpress titles. Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and title to vol.I, 72 plates, all by Rowlandson. Later calf gilt, g.e., by Riviere & Son (split to lower hinge of volume II). Abbey Life 263; Tooley 411.

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DANCE OF DEATH -- [William COMBE (1741-1823)]. The English Dance of Death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson. London: J.Diggens for R.Ackermann, 1815-1816. 2 volumes, 8° (235 x 145mm). Letterpress titles. Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and title to vol.I, 72 plates, all by Rowlandson. Later calf gilt, g.e., by Riviere & Son (split to lower hinge of volume II). Abbey Life 263; Tooley 411.

Hans HOLBEIN (1497-1543). L'Alphabet de la Mort... publiés d'après les manuscripts par Anatole de Montaiglon. Paris: Firmin Didot for Edwin Tross, 1856. 8° (214 x 130mm). Wood-engraved title vignette (repeated at the end), borders and initials after Holbein. Later red morocco gilt, covers with interlocking FF monogram at corners, g.e., by Petit. Provenance: F.F. (binding). -- With 21 others (including: La Danse des Morts", Basle: [n.d.], 4°, text in French and German; Todten-Tanz, Lucerne: [n.d.], 4°, title and text in French and German; Frans MASEREEL. Danse Macabre, Berne: 1941, large 4°; Walther NITHACK-STAHN. Totentanz, Berlin: [n.d.], 8°). (24)