CHOICE EXAMPLES OF EARLY PRINTING AND ENGRAVING. Fac-similes from Rare and Curious Books. THE DANCE OF DEATH. The "Dance of Death," in medieval legend, means the visit of Death and his summons to people in every rank and profession of hie. This was a favorite subject with medieval painters and poets. Such a series of pictures was set up on the walls of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, in the sixteenth century. The present Dance of Death is a page from a volume printed at Lyons in 1499. It represents the visit of the Destroyer to a printing-house, where the compositors and pressmen are each being summoned to their account. In the other compartment of the picture Death lays his icy hand on a book-seller. Nothing can be more clever than these drawings, the animation and expression of which will appeal at once to the connoisseur. Qunc vbi ius/dbi fep/vbi vop/vbi flos iuuenifis hic nifi pus/nifi fep/nifi terre precio vifis, Lemost Denez danser vng tourdion ourir Bous fault certainement Par nre art plufieurs font grans cers Les bouloire des gens sont diuers Le most Te fault if maufgre moy danfer Ces liures il faut que ie laiffe |