. Emblems of mortality : representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, Death seizing all ranks and degrees of people : imitated from a painting in the cemetery of the Dominican church at Basil, in Switzerland : with an apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French : intended as well for the infomation of the curious, as the instruction and entertainment of youth : to which is prefixed a copious preface, containing an historical account of the above, and other paintings on this subject, now or lately existing in divers parts of Europe . 5 ;^t!U MiO. EMBLEMS O F MORTALITY; REPRESEN
. Emblems of mortality : representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, Death seizing all ranks and degrees of people : imitated from a painting in the cemetery of the Dominican church at Basil, in Switzerland : with an apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French : intended as well for the infomation of the curious, as the instruction and entertainment of youth : to which is prefixed a copious preface, containing an historical account of the above, and other paintings on this subject, now or lately existing in divers parts of Europe . 5 ;^t!U MiO. EMBLEMS O F MORTALITY; REPRESENTI NG, IN UPWARDS OF FIFTY CUTS, DEATH SEIZING ALL RANKS AND DEGREES OF people; Imitated from a Painting in the Cemetery of theDominican Church at Basil, in Switzerland: With an Apostrophe to each, tranflated from theLatin and French, Intended as well for the Information of the Curious,as the Inftruction and Entertainment of Youth. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A copious Preface, containing an hiftorical Accountof the above, and other Paintings on this Subject,now or lately exifting in divers Parts of Europe. LONDON: Printed for T. Hodgson, in Georges-Court,St. Johns-Lane, Clerkenwell. MDCC LXXXIX. PREFACE. rT^HE Work here preferred to the Reader is-** a Copy, with a fmall Variation noticedhereafter, as to the Cuts, and a Translation, as tothe Letter Prefs, of one well known to the Cu-rious by the Title of Imagines Mortis, orThe Images of Death ; which is reported to be inreality indebted for its Exigence to an Event thatBoccace did but feign as the Occafion of wemblemsofmortali00bewi
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