Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 130

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(HOLBEIN, HANS.) Bewick, Thomas and John. Emblems of Mortality; representing . . . Death seizing all Ranks and Degrees of People; Imitated from a Painting in the Cemetery of the Dominican Church at Basil, in Switzerland. Woodcut frontispiece and 51 text illustrations by Thomas and John Bewick after Holbein. [2], xxviii, 51, [1] pages. 12mo, 19th-century cloth, top of spine chipped; light dampstaining along top edges toward end. Signature and initials of J. D. Heaton dated 1844; George May Elwood bookplate. London: T. Hodgson, 1789
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first bewick edition. Hugo 35; Praz, page 326.