Emblems Of Mortality: Representing, In Upwards Of Fifty Cuts, Death Seizing All Ranks And Degrees Of People (1795) - Couverture souple

Bewick, John; Bewick, Thomas; Hawkins, John Sidney

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1436834287 ISBN 13 : 9781436834285

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

Emblems of Mortality is a book that was originally published in 1795 by John Bewick. The book contains more than fifty illustrations that depict Death in various forms, seizing people from all walks of life. The cuts are intricately detailed and show Death as a skeleton or a hooded figure, with people of all ages and social classes being taken away. The book is a reflection on the inevitability of death and the idea that it comes for everyone, regardless of their status or position in life. The illustrations are accompanied by short verses that further emphasize the message of the book. The book is a fascinating look at the way people viewed death in the late 18th century, and it remains a valuable historical document to this day.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Work here preferred to the Reader is -a Copy, with a fmall Variation noticed hereafter, as to the Cuts, and a Translation, as to the Letter Prefs, of one well known to the Curious by the Title of Imagines Mortis, or The I mages of Death ;which is reported to be in reality indebted for its Exigence to an Event that Boccace did but feign as the Occafion of writing his Decameron I mean the Calamity of a Plague :A nd its Hiftory is as follows. Pope Eugenius IV. having fummoned a Council to meet at the City of Balle, or, as it is more ufually called, Bafil, in Switzerland ;it accordingly met there in the Year 1431, and continued to fit for Seventeen Years, Nine Months, and Twenty-S even Days, or, according to Mr. Walpole, but Fifteen Years in the whole ;and at this Council the Pope himfelf, and after his Death his Succef Tor Anecdotes of Pamting, 8vo. Vol. I. P. i2j.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1436834287
• ISBN 13: 9781436834285
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 84
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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