Emblems of Mortality (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

John Bewick

9780267314799: Emblems of Mortality (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0267314795 ISBN 13: 9780267314799

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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The Work here presented to the Reader is a Copy, with a small Variation noticed hereafter, as to the Cuts, and a Translation, as to the Letter Press, of one well known to the Curious by the Title of Imagines Mortis, or The Images of Death; which is reported to be in reality indebted for its Exigence to an Event that Boccace did but feign as the Occasion of writing his Decameron I mean the Calamity of a Plague: And its History is as follows.

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