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Imagines mortis. His accesserunt Epigrammata, è Gallico idiomate à Georgio Aemylio in Latinum translata. Cologne: Heirs of Arnold Birckmann, 1566

8vo (5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.; 147 x 95 mm). 53 woodcuts after Holbein; washed and pressed, title-page slightly browned, early ownership inscription on title partially bleached out, lacking final blank M8. Nineteenth-century full dark green morocco, dentelle-style boards, the spine richly gilt in 6 compartments; hinges cracked, joints and board edges rubbed.

PROVENANCE

J. Whitater ? Christopher Daile (early gift inscription) ? E[lias] H[orry] Frost (armorial bookplate and inscription dated 1854)
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

Adams B-77; cf. Murray, German 203 (1st Cologne ed., 1555)
CATALOGUE NOTE

The second of the Cologne editions, with close but reverse copies of Holbein's original cuts used in the 1547 edition. They are also larger in size measuring five millimeters more than the originals. Three of the present cuts (the Abbess, B2; the Canon, B3, and the Justice, B3v) have the engraver's mark A ? i.e. A. S. for Anton Silvius or Bosche, a prolific artist of the period. The initials of the engraver H. Lützelberger, who cut Holbein's originals in the 1547 edition, are not retained at the foot of the bed for the cut of the Duchess (C4v). Judging by the alteration of features, the French king on A6v (originally François I) now probably represents Henri II.