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 : with an apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French, intended as well for the information of the curious, as the instruction and entertainment of youth : to which is prefixed a copious preface, containing an historical account of the above, and other paintings on this subject, now or lately existing in divers parts of Europe / [Edited, with preface by John S. Hawkins].

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1789
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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 : with an apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French, intended as well for the information of the curious, as the instruction and entertainment of youth : to which is prefixed a copious preface, containing an historical account of the above, and other paintings on this subject, now or lately existing in divers parts of Europe / [Edited, with preface by John S. Hawkins]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : [Printed for T. Hodgson, in George's-Court, St. John's-Lane, Clerkenwell], 1789.

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1 unnumbered page, xxviii, 51 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

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Minns 242

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[Engraved by J. Bewick, after Holbein's designs and the verses translated from the Latin edition of 1547]
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