[DANSE MACABRE] - La grande danse macabre [56 bois gravés] - 1862

Anonymous author
Beautiful illustrated edition with 56 engraved woodcuts

The great dance of death of men and women

Paris, Baillieu, without date [1862]. A small octavo volume, 260 x 205 mm, consisting of [2] pages, 67 pages.
Relief. Bookbinding from the period with a pebble pattern, smooth spine, and gilt title. Covers preserved. Spine caps and edges rubbed.

Printed edition in 1862, illustrated with 56 figures in the text.
The text is a reproduction of that from the 1486 edition; the woodcuts (reproducing 15th-century wood engravings) are those that were engraved for the popular editions published in Troyes by Oudot and Garnier in the 17th and 18th centuries. (Vicaire II, 6)

A very fresh specimen in a charming paper box signed Kra.