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[HOLBEIN. CORROZET, Gilles. VAUZELLES, Jean de].
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[HOLBEIN. CORROZET, Gilles. VAUZELLES, Jean de].
See original version (French)
Estimate €500 - €600
Voluntary lot
Description
[HOLBEIN. CORROZET, Gilles. VAUZELLES, Jean de].
The Simulacra & Historic Faces of Death, as elegantly portrayed as they are artfully imagined.
In Lyon, under the coat of arms of Coloigne, 1538.
Small quarto, 38 [of 52] folios, 37 wood-engraved plates. Modern imitation marbled havana morocco, spine with three raised bands and blank, covers stamped with a cold-embossed frame with fleurons in the spandrels (f. G3, G4, and the last 12 f. signed L-N4 are missing; some minor soiling although the f. appear to have been washed, discreet old graffiti on the title letters, on f. A2 and B1, with small marginalia of the period).
A lovely edition of this dance of death, illustrated with woodcut figures based on Hans Holbein, by Hans Lützelburger.
The text, sometimes attributed to Gilles Corrozet, is by J. de Vauzelles (according to Brunet, III, 254, or Lippmann, *Der Todtentanz*, Berlin, 1879).
This copy contains 37 of the 41 required plates, with wide margins.
The illustrations also include a title vignette and finely wood-engraved initials.
[Sign. A-F4, G2 (of 4), H-K4].
Modern bookplate depicting a scorpion and the initials WRHJ.
USTC, 6236. Brunet III, 254. Baudrier, V 175 and XII 248.
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