# The Dance of Death

Author: Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543 [Illustrator]; Corrozet, Gilles, 1510-1568; Vauzelles, Jean de; Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921 [Commentator]; Lützelburger, Hans, 1495?-1526 [Engraver]

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21790

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Dance+of+Death+Holbein&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

"_Les Simulachres & Historiées Faces de la Mort avtant elegamtment pourtraictes, que artificiellement imaginées._" This may be Englished as follows: _The Images and Storied Aspects of Death, as elegantly delineated as [they are] ingeniously imagined._ Such is the literal title of the earliest edition of the famous book now familiarly known as "_Holbein's Dance of Death._" It is a small _quarto_, bearing on its title-page, below the French words above quoted, a nondescript emblem with the legend _Vsus me Genuit_, and on an open book, _Gnothe seauton_. Below this comes again, "_A Lyon, Soubz l'escu de Coloigne_: M. D. XXXVIII," while at the end of the volume is the imprint "_Excvdebant Lvgd...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-21790/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-21790/chapters/2/index.md)