Emblems of Mortality; Representing, in Upwards of Fifty Cuts, Death Seizing all Ranks and Degrees of People; Imitated From a Painting in the Cemetery of the Dominican Church at Basil, in Switzerland

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<sourceLibrary>British Library

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<Notes>The preface by J.S. Hawkins. The woodcuts are by J. Bewick from Holbein. Re-issued [1810?] with the imprint: Newcastle, printed for William Charnley and the title ’The dance of death’.

<imprintFull>London : printed for T. Hodgson, 1789. <collation>[4],xxviii,51,[1]p. : ill. ; 12°