Oct 24 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2683 -

Sale 2683 - Lot 270

Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c. 1497-1543)
The Dance of Death. Enlarged Facsimiles in Platinotype by Frederick H. Evans of Fifty Wood Engravings from Douce (1833), Lippmann (1886) and a Basel Edition (1796).

[London]: Privately printed [by Arthur K. Sabin at the Temple Sheen Press], 1913.

Folio, copy number 6 of 15 printed; last portfolio dated, signed and numbered by Frederick H. Evans (1853-1943); loose portfolio leaves as issued; title and contents printed typographically; the 50 prints housed in separate portfolios, each window matted with Evans's blind-embossed chop mark; original box present in fragments; some chipping to portfolios, text leaves, window mats and prints in better condition; original wrappers broken and chipped; 12 x 9 1/4 in.