"The English Dance of Death" by William Combe and illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson - Methuen, London - 1903 limited new edition of 50 copies for England - 18cmx15cm - complete in 2 volumes - condition: very good, in original publisher's binding, with 38 and 36 coloured plates by Rowlandson, some rubbing to edges. The limited edition of 50 copies of the new and improved edition rarely surfaces especially in original publisher's binding and is highly collectible with its beautiful plates of Death. "The English Dance of Death" most commonly refers to a celebrated two-volume satirical work published between 1815 and 1816, featuring illustrations by the caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and verses by William Combe. It adapted the medieval Danse Macabre tradition to reflect 19th-century English life