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Buy this book on-line [Holbein, Hans] : The Dance of Death...in a Series of Fifty-two Engravings on Wood by Mr. Bewick. LondonWilliam Charlton Wright, London, 1825
8vo., Publisher's printed boards, rubbed and hand soiled, with a calf spine; internally, quite nice.First edition of what purports to be the work of John Bewick but probably is not. As Aldred Warthin (The Physician of the Dance of Death. pp. 81-82) writes: "The cuts with several exceptions are imitations of the original Holbein, but are absurdly modernized; both the costumes and the properties are represented in the contemporary style...[they] have somewhat the quality of caricature in them...If these cuts are Bewick's, which Douce seems to doubt, they are far inferior to his other work, and executed in a different style. They represent a far departure from the old medieval conceptions and treatment, and betray the tendency of the early nineteenth century to use the Dance of Death motive for purposes of caricature." Comparison with either of Bewick's 1789 editions, the London edition and the notably rare Charnley/Newcastle imprint, bears this out. AN EDITION SELDOM MET WITH!See: Douce, Francis. Holbein's Dance of Death. Lon., 1858. Not in the Susan Minns collection (sold by AAA Galleries in 1922), which contained the other Bewick printings. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of [Holbein, Hans] : The Dance of Death...in a Series of Fifty-two Engravings on Wood by Mr. Bewick. London. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out of print books, libri antichi, incunabula, livres d'occasion and libri rari. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |