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Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort, avtant elegammet pourtraictes, que artificiellement imaginées

Colophon: Excvdebant Lvgdvni Melchior et Gaspar Trechsel fratres, 1538. The address on the t.p. is that of J. and F. Frellon; see Mortimer · Holbein's drawings for the 41 ill. probably date from 1524-25, and the wood blocks were cut by Hans Lützelburger before 1526 (the 36th ill. incorporates his monogram); see Hollstein. Each cut is preceded by a Latin caption taken from the Bible, and followed by a quatrain in French that generally paraphrases the caption · Signatures: A-N · Mortimer, R. French 16th-cent. · Hollstein German · Getty copy incomplete. It consists of 13 trimmed leaves printed on both sides with text and illustrations, thus comprising 26 of the total of 41 illustrated pages. That they are from the 1st ed. of 1538 is confirmed by comparison with a facsim. of that ed. (New York : Dover, 1971). Each page is annotated beneath the lower left-hand corner of the image with a sequence number in brown ink. A different number is written beneath each corresponding lower right-hand corner, reversing the sequence: thus the two numbers written beneath "The Fall" are 2 and 40, and those beneath the next image, the "Expulsion from Paradise," are 3 and 39. The numbers written at the l

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