A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . hings of the Dance of Death,published by Edwards in 1794, says, A set of cuts with the latter mark [Hans Holben]occurs in Archbishop Cranmers Catechism, printed by Walter Lyne, in 1548 ; and in thesame page he commits another mistake by describing the mark on the cut of the Duchess inthe Lyons Dance of Death as J^, instead of fl . It has been considered necessary tonotice these errors, as it is probable that many persons who possess the work in which theyoccur, but who never may have seen a copy of the Lyons Dance of Death, nor of Cran
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . hings of the Dance of Death,published by Edwards in 1794, says, A set of cuts with the latter mark [Hans Holben]occurs in Archbishop Cranmers Catechism, printed by Walter Lyne, in 1548 ; and in thesame page he commits another mistake by describing the mark on the cut of the Duchess inthe Lyons Dance of Death as J^, instead of fl . It has been considered necessary tonotice these errors, as it is probable that many persons who possess the work in which theyoccur, but who never may have seen a copy of the Lyons Dance of Death, nor of CranmersCatechism, may have been misled in those matters by implicitly relying on Mr. Doucesauthority. A certain class of compilers are also extremely liable to transmit such mistakes,and, to borrow an expression of Hegners, to give currency to them, as if they stood ready foruse in stereotype. 382 FURTHER PROGRESS AND DECLINE OF The feebleness of the drawing and the want of distinctness inthese three cuts, are totally unlike the more vigorous delineation of. No. 1.
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