[Sixteenth-century book]. [HOLBEIN, CORROZET (Gilles), VAUZE - Lot 110

[Sixteenth-century book]. [HOLBEIN, CORROZET (Gilles), VAUZELLES (Jean de). Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort, autant elegamme[n]t pourtraictes, que artificiellement imaginées. A Lyon, soubs l'escu de Coloigne, 1538. Small in-4, 38 [of 52] f., fig. in recent havana morocco, spine with 3 nerves and mute, boards decorated with a fillet and 4 angular cold fleurons (missing f. G3, G4, and the last 12 f. signed L-N4; soiling although the f. seem to have been washed, small old additions to the title, f. A2 and B1). Fine edition of this danse macabre illustrated with woodcut figures after Hans Holbein, by Hans Lützelburger. The text, sometimes attributed to Gilles Corrozet, is by J. de Vauzelles (after Brunet, Manuel du libraire, t. III, col. 254, F. Lippmann, Der Todtentanz, Berlin, 1879). This incomplete copy contains 37 of the required 41 figures. The illustration also includes a title vignette and woodcut initials. [Signs A-F4, G2 (of 4), H-K4]. Etiq. modern bookplate featuring a scorpion and the initials WRHJ. (USTC 6236; Brunet III, 254; Baudrier, V 175 and XII 248).