Meyer, Rudolf u. Conrad

Dance of Death. Fragment of the Zurich Dance of Death with copper title and 54 (st. 61) engravings. Zurich, [J. J. Bodmer], 1650. cf. VD17, 39:152157A - Leemann-van Elck, Zürcher. Buchill. 110ff. - Nagler 10, 268, 1 - Faber du Faur 453 - Massmann p. 50, no.1 - Brun II, 382 - Langlois II, p.129 - Lonchamp 2073 - First edition. - Beside the Basel cycle by Merian the most important Swiss dance of death with extraordinarily characteristic representations. "A culmination of the art of illustration in Zurich" (Leemann-v. E.). - The fragment consists of a modern cardboard slipcase to which the gest. OTitelbl. was glued, as well as 54 separate engravings cut from the book with the sense poems. The work was printed again in 1759 with the original plates. Our fragment, however, is the copper from the first edition, as a comparison with the texts on the back has shown. - Among others, the coppers with the ecclesiastical dignitaries (pope, cardinal, priest, abbot, abbess, monk) are missing. 4 coppers in parts old coloured; two coppers (count and countess; blind man) only fragmentary. - Finger- and partly brown-stained. - With 54 (of 61) copper engravings. Stained.