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A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical (1881)

Chatto, William Andrew, 1799-1864, Jackson, John, 1801-1848, Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796-1884 · New York : J. W. Bouton · leaf 366

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ueccabis. Eccle, vii; and the following arethe verses underneath: Si tu veulx \ivre sans pecheVoy ceste imaige a tous propos,Et point ne seras empescheQuand tu ten iias en repos. The total number of cuts of the first edition in which Death is seenattending on men and women of all ranks and… … Mes efperitz font attendriz,Et ma uie fen ua tout beau.Las mes longz iours font amolndrizPlus ne me refte quun tombeau. The above cut is a copy of the thirty-third, the Old Man—Der Altman—whom Death leads in confiding imbecility to the grave, while ho 342 FtTRTHER PROGRESS AND DECLINE OF pretends…

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