Anonyme - La grande Danse Macabre - 1862

The Great Macabre Dance of men and women, preceded by the Dict of the three deaths and the three livings, the Debate of the body and the soul, and the Complaint of the damned soul Paris, Baillieu, n.d., (1862), in-4, 66 pages (page break 64-66)., half dark blue morocco, Reissue of the 19th century of the text of the Danse Macabre printed for the first time in Troyes in 1486. The wood engravings reproduce the original 15th-century woodcuts (56 wood engravings). They were copied and reproduced for the first time in 1539 for Jehan Lecocq’s edition and then in 1641 for Garnier’s edition. This elegant edition is printed on laid paper.

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