The Celebrated Hans Holbein's Alphabet of Death: Illustrated With Old Borders Engraved on Wood With Latin Sentences and English Quatrains (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Celebrated Hans Holbein's Alphabet of Death: Illustrated With Old Borders Engraved on Wood With Latin Sentences and English QuatrainsThe life and works of the great German painter, Hans Holbein, and the question of the Dance of Death are, for historical inquirers, an admirable subject, on which nothing has yetbeensaid that can be held really satisfactory; but the limits Of this note are necessarily so confined as to leave no space even for a view of them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.