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La dance macabre des Saints Innocents de Paris :

Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429, Dufour, Valentin, 1826-1896 · 1874 · Paris : Leon Willem : Paul Daffis · 3 pictures

A late nineteenth-century Paris reprint, published in 1874 by Léon Willem and Paul Daffis, of the medieval Dance of Death at the Saints-Innocents cemetery, with text attributed to Jean Gerson and edited by Valentin Dufour. The pictures are black-and-white relief prints: a heraldic Paris shield with a ship and fleur-de-lis, a stout pilgrim figure beside a monogram cartouche, and a Gothic arched title page with skeletal dancers, which a designer could take from for medieval death-themed headers, arch frames and woodcut-style emblems.

Dance of death

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